Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, JOHN (1576 - 1610), Benedictine monk and martyr Born at Trawsfynydd in 1576. It is now believed, on the authority of Peniarth MS 287, that his father was Robert, one of the sons of Ellis ap William ap Gruffydd of Rhiwgoch, and that he was, therefore, a cousin of Robert Lloyd of Rhiwgoch, Member of Parliament for Merionethshire, 1586-7. He was brought up and educated as a Protestant and was admitted to S. John's College, Oxford, 26 February
ROBERTS, JOHN (1767 - 1834), Independent minister and theologian supported him. He also published Galwad caredigol ar yr Arminiaid; Cyfarwyddiadau ac Anogaethau i Gredinwyr; A Friendly Address to the Arminians; Hanes Bywyd Lewis Rees; and some other books. He died 21 July 1834, and was buried in Llanbryn-mair parish churchyard. He had married (1797) Mary Breese, and had three sons ('S.R.,' 'J.R.,' and 'Gruffydd Rhisiart,' all separately noticed, and two daughters
ROBERTS, JOHN (J.R.; 1804 - 1884), Independent minister and author ; the late Professor W. J. Gruffydd considered his lyric, 'Eisteddai teithiwr blin,' one of the best in the language. A testimonial was collected for him at Conway and he made over the money to the building of a new chapel, which is still known as 'Capel y Dysteb' (the Testimonial Chapel). He published Traethodau, Pregethau ac Ymddiddanion, 1854; Y Gyfrol Olaf o Bregethau, 1876; Hanesion y Beibl ar
ROBERTS, KATE (1891 - 1985), author the memorable scene in which Jane Gruffydd, the mother, receives news of her son's death but is unable to read the official letter because it is written in English. Kate demonstrates the skills of a consummate short-story writer in her sketching of this brief but resonant scene. After the publication of another collection of short stories in 1937 (Ffair Gaeaf/Winter Fair) there was a hiatus before
ROBERTS, LEWIS (1596 - 1640), merchant and writer on economics His family (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 96) is an interesting example of Welsh infiltration into the English boroughs of north-west Wales. Its first member known to us is a Gruffydd Llwyd (died 1375), who lived in the bond vill of Penhwnllys in Dindaethwy commote, i.e. on land which had once belonged to the house of Ednyfed Fychan - by 1413 these lands were in the possession of Gwilym Gruffydd of
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 (d. c. 1723), poet, and carpenter
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, RICHARD (Gruffydd Rhisiart; 1810 - 1883), writer and Independent preacher
ROBERTS, ROBERT (SILYN) (Rhosyr; 1871 - 1930), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, social reformer, tutor published, with W. J. Gruffydd, in 1900, Telynegion, which marks the beginning of a new lyrical period in Welsh poetry. He published Trystan ac Esyllt a Chaniadau Eraill in 1904. Other poems were published later, some under the pseudonym 'Rhosyr,' but they have not been collected with the exception of a short memorial selection, Cofarwydd, 1930. He published a pamphlet on the I.L.P. : Y Blaid Lafur
ROBERTS, SAMUEL (S.R.; 1800 - 1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer the latter moved to Ruthin in 1848. His youngest brother, 'Gruffydd Rhisiart', looked after the small-holding, Diosg Farm, where the family had been tenants since 1806. 'S.R's interest in agriculture was, therefore, personal and practical. His father's bitter experience of spending £700 on improvements to Diosg Farm in seven years, and having the rent doubled, accounts for his strictures against
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1884 - 1960), educationalist and scholar the Normal College, Bangor, and was vice-principal from 1920 till his retirement in 1949. As a scholar Thomas Roberts was interested in the works of the poets of the gentry throughout his life. The subject of his M.A. dissertation in 1910 was the poetry of Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan. In 1914 he published Gwaith Dafydd ab Edmwnd in the Bangor Welsh Manuscripts Society ” series. The work was

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