Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, LEWIS (1596 - 1640), merchant and writer on economics ., 74) was Margaret, daughter of ' Old ' Richard Johnson - the Johnsons and the Thicknesses (connected by marriage) were the commercial magnates of Beaumaris, and we note the intromission of Welshmen from the countryside into the privileged Englishry of the borough. Robert ab Ifan's second wife was a Welshwoman; a son of this marriage, LEWIS ROBERTS, married a daughter of ' Young ' Richard Johnson
ROBERTS, LEWIS JONES (1866 - 1931), inspector of schools, and musician Born 29 May 1866 at Aberaeron, Cardiganshire, the son of Lewis Roberts and his wife, Margaret (Jones). He was educated at S. David's College, Lampeter (B.A.), and Exeter College, Oxford (M.A.); whilst he was at Oxford he was a member of ' Cymdeithas Dafydd ap Gwilym.' He married, 1888, Mary Noel Griffiths, daughter of capt. Griffiths, Old Bank, Aberaeron; there were six sons and three daughters
ROBERTS, MORRIS (1799 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and later Independent minister Born at Llechwedd-ystrad, Llanuwchllyn, in May 1799. He attended for a time one of Dr. Daniel Williams's schools, which was kept in the ' Old Chapel,' but the teacher at that time was highly incompetent; however, he was given an excellent grounding in the Bible by George Lewis. The family was so poor that he had to start earning a living when he was 10 years of age, and worked on a number of
ROBERTS, PETER (fl. 1578-1646), attorney and chronicler Born 2 February 1577/1578, son of Robert ap Hywel ap Rhys, of Bron-yr-wylfa, near S. Asaph, and his wife Agnes - a Griffith of Gwern-eigron; he probably went to S. Asaph cathedral school. By 1599 he was notary public at S. Asaph, and in 1624 (30 June) he was appointed proctor in the bishop's court. In 1606 he married Jane, one of the daughters of David ap Lewis ap Gronw, of Meiriadog; and he
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1777 - 1836), almanack-maker and printer Born in 1777, son of John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) whom he succeeded as the publisher and compiler of the popular Holyhead almanacks known as Cyfaill Glandeg, Cyfaill Taeredd, etc., for the years 1805 to 1837. These almanacks were printed by John Jones of Trefriw under a fictitious Dublin imprint in order to avoid Government tax. He also published Eurgrawn Môn, neu y Drysorfa Hanesyddol, 1825
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1834 - 1885), cleric and scholar Born 12 November 1834, son of Owen Roberts and Mary his wife, of Hafod Bach, Llanddewi, Llangernyw, Denbighshire. He went to Bala to Lewis Edwards for two years, 1847-9, and then for two years more was a private tutor in Anglesey before being admitted to the training college at Caernarvon. He obtained his certificate there, and taught at Castle Caereinion and Llanllechid (1853), Amlwch, and
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1800 - 1878), schoolmaster and Calvinistic Methodist minister at all times on any subject, a fine scholar, but more a thinker than a reader. Peter Davies, Y Glyn, and David Jones, Dolau Bach, two Llangeitho elders, urged him to preach. He was a mature preacher when he was ordained at the Cardigan Association, 1847, but he is said to have increased in sweetness and in respect and acceptability until the end. Dr. Lewis Edwards classed him as a preacher worth
ROBERTS, SAMUEL (S.R.; 1800 - 1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer be removed to Newtown under George Lewis, as a candidate for the ministry. On 15 August 1827 he was ordained as co- pastor with his father at Llanbryn-mair. He soon became prominent as a preacher, a frequent contributor to the press, and a keen competitor in eisteddfodau. In 1830 he published a small volume of poems, including a lyric exposing the cruelties of slavery; he remained a keen advocate
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1884 - 1960), educationalist and scholar Llywelyn Goch - and for the texts of their poems. In the second edition, which appeared in 1935, Thomas Roberts added some poems and revised the introductions. In 1925 he took part in another joint effort, this time with Henry Lewis and Ifor Williams, to produce Cywyddau Iolo Goch ac eraill, in which Thomas Roberts dealt with Gruffudd Llwyd and Ieuan ap Rhydderch. The introductions were amplified and the
ROBERTS, WILLIAM CHARLES (1832 - 1903), Presbyterian minister, principal of colleges, and author Born at Alltmai, Llanychaearn, Cardiganshire - he was a nephew of principal Lewis Edwards, Bala. In 1849 he emigrated with his parents to the U.S.A. After working in a shop in New Jersey for about two years he entered the University of Princeton where he graduated in 1855, going thence to a theological college for three years. He became pastor of a Presbyterian church at Wilmington, Delaware, in
ROBERTS, WILLIAM HENRY (1907 - 1982), actor, broadcaster also took part in plays broadcast from Cardiff, sometimes under the direction of T. Rowland Hughes and including some by Saunders Lewis, 'Amlyn ac Amig' (with Hugh Griffith), 'Buchedd Garmon'. He served in the army during World War II and went to India, to Calcutta and Mysore, in 1942. He resumed his career on his return to Newborough and became well known as an elocution adjudicator. He was honoured
ROCYN-JONES, Sir DAVID THOMAS (1862 - 1953), medical officer of health and a public figure Born in Rhymney, Monmouthshire, 16 November 1862, the son of David Rocyn Jones, whose father, Thomas Rocyn Jones was a member of a famous family of bonesetters from Maenordeifi, Pembrokeshire. He was educated at Lewis School, Pengam, the University College of Cardiff and London, and graduated M.B. at the University of Edinburgh in 1897. He began his professional life in general practice at

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