Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, GEORGE (1769 - 1853), settler and Independent minister in U.S.A. Born at Bron-y-llan, Mochdre, Montgomeryshire, 11 February 1769. His father was EVAN ROBERTS (1729 - 1813, obituary by his son John in Y Dysgedydd, May 1831), whose grandmother had been servant-maid to the old Puritan minister Henry Williams of Ysgafell. George's mother, Evan Roberts's first wife Mary (1734 - 1777, née Green - the Greens were also connected with Ysgafell), had a sister Elizabeth
ROBERTS, Sir GEORGE FOSSETT (1870 - 1954), soldier, politician and administrator 1914 and of the Council in 1919, and he served as treasurer from 1939 until 1944, when he was elected to succeed Lord Davies of Llandinam as N.L.W. President. He chose to retire from this position in 1950. He also served as vice-president of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He was a prominent supporter, too, of the work of the Aberystwyth General Hospital, and he chaired the Mid-Wales
ROBERTS, GLYN (1904 - 1962), historian and administrator and, in great measure, this accounted for his success as a teacher and administrator. He understood the motives of his fellow man better than most and detested over-respectability and affectation. Full of humour and a lover of amusing tales and ready witticisms he was fundamentally a likeable, gracious and kindly man. Married twice (1): Mary Davida Alwynne Hughes on 6 September 1933, and after her
ROBERTS, GOMER MORGAN (1904 - 1993), minister (CM), historian, author and hymnwriter , prepared radio scripts and talks, histories of chapels and hymnwriters, as well as numerous popular articles and essays. In 1938 he published Methodistiaeth Fy Mro and a constant stream flowed from his pen until 1980 when his final volume Mynwenta: Detholiad o Englynion y Beddau appeared. A full and detailed bibliography prepared by Huw M. Walters and K. Monica Davies was published in Gwanwyn Duw
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1912 - 1969), priest and poet service to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the translation of the New Testament into Welsh, at Gyffin, the birthplace of Bishop Richard Davies. When the Bishop of Bangor (John Charles Jones) decided to lead a diocesan pilgrimage to Bardsey in 1952 he asked G.J. Roberts to arrange the route and to write the script giving the historical background. He was one of the small band who sailed over to the
ROBERTS, GWILYM OWEN (1909 - 1987), author, lecturer, minister and psychologist Gwilym O. Roberts (in error, a full middle name was not registered on his birth certificate though his university records have Owen), was born 22 July 1909 in Cerniog, Pistyll, son to William Owen Roberts, a farmer and well known lay preacher, and his wife Mary Elisabeth Roberts, a seamstress. He received his education at Pwllheli County School and then went on to Aberystwyth University in 1929
ROBERTS, HUW (fl. c. 1555-1619), poet, author, and cleric families, including those of Bodorgan, Henblas, Mellteyrn, Mysoglen, Penhesgyn, Penrhyn, and Plas Iolyn. He composed a cywydd of welcome to Henry Rowland, bishop of Bangor, on the return of the latter from London in 1610, one on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a poem in the form of a dialogue between a cleric and his lover, a number of various englynion which include one to the Virgin Mary, and ymryson
ROBERTS, JOHN (1879 - 1959), minister (Presb.) and historian , Porthmadog; they had four sons and two daughters. He died 29 July 1959. John Roberts was among the leading preachers of his time, even though his voice was not suitable for the pulpit (see R.T. Jenkins's opinion of him as a preacher in Cyfoedion (1976), 39-41). He was Moderator of the South Wales Association (1941) and Moderator of the General Assembly (1943). He delivered the Davies Lecture in 1930 on the
ROBERTS, JOHN (Jack Russia; 1899 - 1979), miner, councillor and a prominent member of the Welsh Communist Party Born 1 May 1899 in Penrhyndeudraeth, Meirionethshire, the son of John Roberts, a miner and Mary Jones, daughter of a blacksmith from Harlech. He was brought up by his grandparents in Penrhyndeudraeth and received his education in the local schools. When he left in 1913 his grandmother Sarah Jones arranged for him to travel to his parents' home in Abertridwr, where he found work at the Windsor
ROBERTS, JOHN (1910 - 1984), preacher, hymnist, poet delivered a host of lectures (they too are extant), including the John Williams Brynsiencyn Memorial Lecture on “Preaching” and the Davies Lecture (on “The Devotion of Silence”: he was trying to understand the appeal of Quakerism to one of his sons-in-law). He claimed that he couldn't really lecture because every lecture became a sermon. He never held an office in the Connexion, partly because he didn't
ROBERTS, JOHN (1767 - 1834), Independent minister and theologian Born 25 February 1767 at Bron-y-llan, Mochdre, Montgomeryshire. His parents were Evan and Mary Roberts (see under George Roberts), members of the Independent congregation at Llanbryn-mair who attended a branch chapel at Aberhafesp. When he was 18 years of age he went to live with his elder sister at Llanbryn-mair, where he became a member of the church October 1786. In January 1790 he began to
ROBERTS, JOHN (J.R.; 1804 - 1884), Independent minister and author Born in the Old Chapel chapel-house, Llanbryn-mair, 5 November 1804, second son of John Roberts (1767 - 1834). In 1806 the family went to live at Diosg farm close by, and he spent some time working on the land. He was nearly 25 years of age before he started to preach. In March 1831 he was admitted to the Academy at Newtown, which at that time was in charge of Edward Davies (1796 - 1857), a Tory

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