Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, EDWARD (1816 - 1887), Congregational minister letters to the Morning Post, in which he advocated education and freedom. On the death of Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd) in 1852 he was appointed as editor of Yr Adolygydd. An essay on Sir Robert Peel won for him a prize of £100. He died 12 March 1887.
ROBERTS, EDWARD (Iorwerth Glan Aled; 1819 - 1867), poet and writer at Liverpool and at Rhymney, Monmouth He wrote much to journals and newspapers and published several works (mainly booklets), such as Dyddanion, neu Hanesion Difyrus a Buddiol, 1838; Y Weithred o Fedyddio, 1849; Cerdd Allwyn, er Coffadwriaeth am E. Jones, 'Ieuan Gwynedd …,' 1853; Palestina, 1851; Y Llenor Diwylliedig, sef Llawlyfr yr Ysgrifenydd, yr Areithydd, a'r Bardd, 1862; Mel-Ddyferion
ROBERTS, EDWARD (fl. end of 18th century), editor of Tynewydd, Cefnddwysarn, near Bala, Meironnydd. In 1794 he edited a composite volume called Casgliad Defnyddiol o waith Amryw Awdwyr, consisting mainly of nine letters composed by Elis Roberts ('Elis y Cowper') as religious exhortations to his fellow countrymen. The volume also contained instructions on reading and writing Welsh by Thomas Jones, an account of the visions of one Richard Brightly
ROBERTS, EDWARD (1886 - 1975), minister (Bapt.) and college principal Edward Roberts was born in Llanelli on 20 March 1886, the son of David and Jane Roberts (née Davies). He was one of nine children with four brothers (John, Thomas, William and Henry) and four sisters (Ann, Mary, Elizabeth-Jane and Gertrude). His parents were members of the Baptist church that met in Seion, Llanelli. The minister there was the renowned preacher, E.T. Jones, and it was he who
ROBERTS, EDWARD STANTON (1878 - 1938), schoolteacher and scholar Cemetery. In 1919 he married Annie, daughter of Robert and Alice Roberts, Cefn Post, Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr. They had three children. Stanton Roberts was a good scholar and, according to some, one of the best palaeographers in Wales at the time. He was also a poet and writer of englynion (strict-metre quatrains). A very close friend of his, from Aberystwyth days, was poet Thomas Gwynn Jones who bore
ROBERTS, EDWYN CYNRIG (1837 - 1893), pioneer in Patagonia Patagonia'. At the office of Y Drych in New York, he was persuaded to exchange his ticket for one to Liverpool in order to join the Colonial Society of that city. Michael D. Jones invited the 'ruddy beard-less youngster', to address a meeting at Hope Hall, where Lewis Jones met him for the first time. Later, he was appointed Peripatetic Secretary and sent to campaign all over the country. Starting in the
ROBERTS, ELLIS (Eos Llyfnwy, Robin Ddu Eifionydd; 1827 - 1895) Iachus … (Caernarfon, 1816), in which he defended his faith as a Baptist. Spinther (Hanes y Bed., iii, 342-3) gives the titles of some of his poems (among them 'Cerdd i Mr. Madog a'i Dref' - see Madocks, W. A.); there is a copy in Corph y Gaingc, 1810 (ed. D. Thomas, Dafydd Ddu Eryri) of 'Emyn ar Ddydd Ympryd gan Robert Morys, Bryn-y-gro, yn agos i Lanllyfni.' John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) in Gen., 1883
ROBERTS, EMRYS OWEN (1910 - 1990), Liberal politician and public servant Liberal candidate for the Caernarfon Boroughs constituency (Lloyd George's old seat) in the 1945 by-election. He was soon to be elected Liberal MP for Merionethshire in the general election of 1945 as successor to Sir Henry Haydn Jones MP, and he continued to serve until defeated by the Labour candidate, T.W. Jones, in the general election of October 1951. He held a large number of directorships in
ROBERTS, EVAN (1718 - 1804) Minera, trustee of the Trevecka 'Family,' a lead-miner who joined the family in 1757, and with Evan Moses and James Pritchard, was one of the three trustees appointed by Harris, his special charge being the management of the economic affairs of the community. He died in 1804 (buried 5 June), aged 86. See Richard Bennett in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, vii, 4-10, and M. H. Jones, ibid., ix, 45.
ROBERTS, EVAN (1923 - 2007), research chemist and industrialist Evan Roberts was born on 18 November 1923 in Penygroes, Caernarfonshire, the son of William Henry Roberts (1899-1974), a baker, and Mary Jones Roberts (née Smith, 1899-1980), a laundress. He secured a scholarship to Penygroes County School in 1934, and in 1940 he won a State Bursary to study at the University College of North Wales in Bangor, where he graduated with a first class honours degree
ROBERTS, GOMER MORGAN (1904 - 1993), minister (CM), historian, author and hymnwriter funeral. He maried at Bethany, Ammanford, 23 September 1930, Gwladys Jones, second daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Jones, Pantyffynnon. Gomer Roberts died 16 March 1993, aged 89, and was buried at Llandybïe.
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

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