Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, ROBERT (SILYN) (Rhosyr; 1871 - 1930), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, social reformer, tutor Cymreig, The Welsh Outlook, etc. He published Gwyntoedd Croesion, 1924 (a translation of J. O. Francis's drama, Cross Currents), Bugail Geifr Lorraine, 1925 (a translation of Souvestre's novel), and in 1945, a romance, Llio Plas y Nos. He married, in 1905, Mary Parry, of London, and had two sons and one daughter. He died at Bangor 15 August 1930.
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, 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 (1840 - 1871), musician Born 24 May 1840 at Tanysgafell, Bethesda, Caernarfonshire. He was 12 when his father died and he began to work in a quarry. He was taught the rudiments of music by Owen Humphrey Davies (Eos Llechid). Henry Samuel Hayden then gave him some instruction and the boy was admitted, when he was 14, to the training college at Caernarvon where Hayden taught; he afterwards followed Hayden in his post. In
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 crushing blow when he lost his sight but despite this, he remained a panel member of Byd Natur until his death in Wrexham, 3 March 1962. He was buried in Wrexham public cemetery. He married Edith Mary Davies, Wrexham in 1921, and they had one son.
ROBERTS, ROBERT GRIFFITH (1866 - 1930), Baptist minister, and writer press. A few of his addresses (notably a sketch of the history of liberty, and an essay on the influence of philosophy on modern theology) were reprinted in the memorial volume named below; his articles in Y Geiriadur Beiblaidd (1924-6) won much praise; and an essay on John Philip Davies was printed in Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru for 1927.
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, THOMAS (1765-6 - 1841) Llwyn'rhudol, pamphleteer known that his wife's name was Mary, and that she was a native of Warwickshire and was a member of the Society of Friends. It is not certain whether Thomas Roberts became a Quaker. A daughter was born in October 1791. The eldest son, MAURICE ROBERTS, who had translated Dafydd Benfras's awdl to Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, died at the age of 20 in December 1812. In all, four children died before their
ROBERTS, THOMAS FRANCIS (1860 - 1919), principal, University College, Aberystwyth and of the Welsh intermediate school system. His quiet, devoted, and scholarly nature endeared him to generations of students and colleagues. He married, 1893, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Davies, Cardiff, who, with one son, survived him.
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (1828 - 1872), Congregational college tutor he won a Latin medal, ill health forced him to leave without a degree. He was prone to melancholy, and an unwilling (and indifferent) preacher; so, after teaching in various schools in England, he opened a grammar school at Cardiff. In 1856 he was appointed to succeed Edward Davies (1796 - 1857) as classical tutor at Brecon Congregational College. He was joint-editor of Y Beirniad from 1859 till
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Eryri; 1844 - 1895?), poet and editor in the 1880s a volume of the works of Mary Davies (1846 - 1882), the Portmadoc poetess, under the title Blodeu Eifion, sef Gwaith Barddonol Mair Eifion. Three of his own poems, which he had submitted in the competition for the chair at the national eisteddfod in 1884, 1887, and 1894 respectively, were published, viz., Awdl ar Gwilym Hiraethog, 1884; Y Frenhines Victoria, 1887; and Hunan Aberth

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