Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, WILLIAM Pant Glas (1742 - 1791) Ysbyty Ifan - see WILLIAMS
ROBERTS, Sir WILLIAM (1830 - 1899), physician - see ROBERTS
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (d. 1760), freeholder - see ROBERTS, THOMAS
ROBERTS, WILLIAM CHARLES (1832 - 1903), Presbyterian minister, principal of colleges, and author
ROBERTS, WILLIAM HENRY (1907 - 1982), actor, broadcaster
ROBERTS, WILLIAM JOHN (Gwilym Cowlyd; 1828 - 1904), poet, printer, bookseller, bibliophile, and eccentric
ROBERTS, WILLIAM JOHN (1904 - 1967), Methodist minister and ecumenist W. J. Roberts was born 7 December 1904 at 22 The Square, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, the eldest of three children of William Roberts, slate quarryman and his wife, Ellen Jones. His grandfather, William Roberts, Maentwrog, also a slate quarryman, had been a prominent Wesleyan lay preacher who, during his last years, published a collection of his sermons with the title Cyfraith y Tŷ (1905
ROBERTS, WILLIAM MORGAN (1853 - 1923), musician
ROBERTS, WILLIAM RHYS (1858 - 1929), professor of Greek
ROBESON, PAUL LEROY (1898 - 1976), actor, singer and political activist Paul Robeson was born on 9 April 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A., the youngest of five children of Reverend William Drew Robeson, a minister from North Carolina of Igbo origin, and his wife Maria Louisa (née Bustill). As a child he was profoundly influenced by the words and example of his father, who had escaped slavery in his teens, as well as the experiences he had of working class
ROBINSON family Conway, Monachdy, Gwersyllt, This family was descended from a Cheshire knight, Sir William Norris, who married a sister of Owain Tudor and whose grandson, Henry (son of Robin Norris), took the surname of Robinson. NICHOLAS ROBINSON (c. 1530 - 1585), bishop of Bangor Religion The younger son of John Robinson of Conway (son of the above Henry Robinson) by Elin, daughter of the Rev. W. Brickdale of the Wirral and his wife
ROCH, WALTER FRANCIS (1880 - 1965), politician and landowner Born 20 January 1880, the second son of William Francis Roch, J.P., Butter Hill, Pemb. (he died 1889) and Emily Catherine (she died 1938), the second daughter of Walter R.H. Powell, Maesgwynne, Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire, M.P. (Lib.) for Carmarthenshire, 1880-85, and West Carmarthenshire, 1885-89. He was educated at Harrow. In 1908, at 28 yrs of age, he was elected M.P. (Lib.) for Pembrokeshire

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