Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, DAVID (Dewi Ogwen; 1818 - 1897), Independent minister
ROBERTS, DAVID (Dewi Havhesp; 1831 - 1884), poet
ROBERTS, DAVID (Alawydd; 1820 - 1872), quarryman and musician the Carneddi musical society. He joined the Congregational chapel at Bethesda and, in time, became the leader of the church choir. He started a music class for the use of which he wrote a series of lessons. These lessons were shown to John Ambrose Lloyd and Edward Stephen (Tanymarian) on whose suggestion, together with the suggestion of the Carneddi musical society, they were published in 1848
ROBERTS, DAVID (1788? - 1869), physician - see ROBERTS
ROBERTS, DAVID FRANCIS (1882 - 1945), minister (CM) and author
ROBERTS, DAVID JOHN (Dewi Mai o Feirion; 1883 - 1956), journalist, folk poet, tutor and setter of cerdd dant Born 14 May 1883 at Talweunydd, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, son of David and Catherine Roberts. He began to take an interest in singing to the harp when he was very young, and as did a number of other youths from the neighbourhood of Blaenau, such as Ioan Dwyryd, Robert G. Humphreys, and W. Morris Williams, he used to frequent the cottage Llys y Delyn, Rhiwbryfdir, Blaenau Ffestiniog
ROBERTS, DAVID OWEN (1888 - 1958), educationalist
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, EDWYN CYNRIG (1837 - 1893), pioneer in Patagonia second son, John, in January 1839, John Kendrick died. Mary re-married eventually with another local farmer, David Roberts, and his surname was added to the names of her sons. Following the births of Thomas (1842) and Peter (1843), the family emigrated in May 1847 to the USA, settling on a farm some ten miles south-west of the town of Oshkosh in the state of Wisconsin, where Josiah (1849), David (1851
ROBERTS, EMMANUEL BERWYN (1869 - 1951), minister (Meth.) . He went to Corris in 1900, and there married Annie Roberts, adopted daughter of David and Ellen Roberts, Waterloo House, Caernarfon. They had four children, 2 girls, who married Wesleyan ministers, and two sons, who became local preachers. He served twelve circuits; he was secretary to the Second Province of North Wales from 1914 to 1933, Chairman of the Province from 1933 to 1936, and President of
ROBERTS, EMRYS OWEN (1910 - 1990), Liberal politician and public servant sharpness of his intellect and his conspicuous radical leanings. He focused on European affairs, the economy and Welsh affairs. Much of his time was inevitably taken up with internal party discussions on the political direction which the Liberals might take. Roberts generally shared the view of Lady Megan Lloyd George (Anglesey) and Dingle Foot (Dundee) that it should lean more to the left. In this view
ROBERTS, GEORGE (1769 - 1853), settler and Independent minister in U.S.A. Richard Williams (1802 - 1842), and the grandmother of the antiquary Richard Williams (1835 - 1906). John Roberts's three sons, and his daughter Maria's son John Griffith (1821 - 1877), all separately noticed, round off the tale of this exceptionally interesting family. George Roberts's autobiography, written at intervals (1827, 1835, 1846, and 1850), begins with a very full account of his family and

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