Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, ROBERT ALUN (1894 - 1969), Professor of Agricultural Botany at University College, Bangor, and a naturalist Born 10 March 1894, at Glan Gors, Tan'rallt, Dyffryn Nantlle, Caernarfonshire, son of Robert Roberts (brother of Owen Roberts, father of Dr. Kate Roberts) and Jane Thomas. He received his primary education at Nebo school and won a scholarship to Pen-y-groes county school. For a period, he was a pupil teacher before securing a place in University College, Bangor in 1911. He was awarded a B.Sc
ROBERTS, ROBERT DAVID (1820 - 1893), Baptist minister monthly meeting in Christmas Evans's old territory in Llŷn, but returned to Sardis where he and his cousin were ordained in 1844. The two ministered jointly to the churches in the neighbourhood for some years. Early in 1848 R. D. Roberts went to Pontlyfni and Llanaelhaearn but, before the end of the year, had moved on to Llanfachraeth and Llanddeusant, Anglesey. He moved again, to Tabernacle, Merthyr
ROBERTS, ROBERT DAVIES (1851 - 1911), pioneer in adult education and scientist Born 5 March 1851, at Aberystwyth, eldest son of Richard Davies Roberts, timber merchant, and Sara Davies. Educated locally and at Oswestry, the Liverpool Institute, University College, London (B.Sc., 1st class in geology, 1870, D.Sc., 1878), Clare College, Cambridge (2nd class natural sciences tripos., 1875), he was (1876-7) temporary lecturer at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
ROBERTS, ROBERT ELLIS VAUGHAN (1888 - 1962), headmaster and naturalist Born at Bryn Melyn, Rhyduchaf, near Bala, Merionethshire, 24 March 1888, son of William Roberts. Educated at Bala grammar school for boys and graduating in the sciences from University College, Bangor in 1909, he began his teaching career in Denbigh, Clocaenog, and Rhos-ddu, Wrexham, and in 1920 was appointed headmaster of Llanarmon-yn-Iâl primary school, one year after the retirement of the
ROBERTS, ROBERT GRIFFITH (1866 - 1930), Baptist minister, and writer Born 13 December 1866, at Tyddyn Llidiart, Dyffryn Ardudwy, younger son of Morris and Catrin Roberts; the father, a 'character,' was a Calvinistic Methodist, but the mother (née Evans, of a family hailing from Llanystumdwy - and a descendant of the Lloyd of Cwmbychan in Ardudwy, for whom see under John Lloyd, 1733 - 1793) was a Sandemanian Baptist, and brought up her two sons in that connexion
ROBERTS, ROBERT HENRY (1838 - 1900), Baptist minister and principal of Regent's Park College, London Born at Carmarthen, 1838, son of John Nathan Roberts, ironmonger of that town and deacon at Tabernacle Baptist church. He was a student at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, 1852-7, and thereafter at the Baptist College, Bristol, until 1859, when he graduated B.A. (London). He held the pastorates of Bootle, 1861-9, and Cornwall Road, Notting Hill, London, 1869-91, and was principal and
ROBERTS, ROBERT MEIRION (1906 - 1967), minister (Presb. C. of Wales and Presb. C. of Scotland), philosopher and poet Born 28 November 1906 at Station House, Llandrillo, Merionethshire, son of Robert and Catherine Elizabeth Roberts. He was educated at elementary schools at Llandrillo and Pentre, near Chirk, Denbighshire; Llangollen county school; University College, Bangor (where he graduated with first-class honours in philosophy), and at the theological colleges of his denomination at Aberystwyth and Bala. He
ROBERTS, SAMUEL (S.R.; 1800 - 1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer Born 6 March 1800, eldest son of John and Mary Roberts (née Breese), of Llanbryn-mair, where his father John Roberts (1767 - 1834) was Independent minister, 1794-1834. He received his early education at the local school kept by his father, and at Shrewsbury, 1810-12. It is claimed that he was one of the earliest in Wales to master shorthand. In 1819 he entered the Academy at Llanfyllin, soon to
ROBERTS, IEUAN WYN PRITCHARD (1930 - 2013), journalist and politician Wyn Roberts was born on 10 July 1930 in Llansadwrn, Anglesey, the son of the Reverend Evan Roberts and his wife Margaret (née Jones). His father was a Methodist minister at Capel Penucheldref and writer of a weekly column in Y Goleuad. His mother was a teacher at the local school, the schoolhouse also being the Roberts family residence. He attended Beaumaris County School until he won a
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1835 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at the Green, near Denbigh, 19 August 1835, son of John and Jane Powel Roberts. For a short time he attended the school kept by Jonah Lloyd, an Independent preacher; after which he went for a year as a farmer's boy to his uncle at Tŷ-draw, near Mold. After that, he went to the British School at Denbigh where Macaulay, the schoolmaster, was kind to him. He served his apprenticeship in the
ROBERTS, THOMAS (d. c. 1775), first Baptist convert in Anglesey
ROBERTS, THOMAS (Scorpion; 1816 - 1887), Independent minister Born at Denbigh, christened 25 August 1816, the son of Harry Roberts, a self-educated man of parts who had served nearly twenty years as a soldier. In his early days Scorpion's educational opportunities were limited; he attended a school kept by Caledfryn (William Williams) in the local Calvinistic Methodist chapel but we gather that his principal teacher was his father; he had lost his mother

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