Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERT ap HARRY (fl. c. 1580), poet Five of his poems are preserved in manuscript, viz. a cywydd to pride, an elegy to Siôn Eutyn, a laudatory cywydd on John Salusbury of Lleweni, a poem to the Sacrament, and an englyn. There is also one other poem attributed to him in Cardiff MS. 6 (123), but in Cardiff MS. 63 (278) it is attributed to Siôn Phylip.
ROBERT (ab) IFAN (fl. c. 1572-1603), poet (yet neither father nor son would seem to have been paying subsidy). He addressed his poems chiefly to the gentry of Anglesey and Denbighshire, amongst others to the Salusbury family of Lleweni; elegies which he wrote for Katheryn of Berain and Siôn Tudur have also been preserved. Some of his work, in his own handwriting, is to be found in Christ Church MS. 184 (for a photostat copy see NLW MS 6495D
ROBERT, GRUFFYDD (c. 1527 - 1598), priest, grammarian and poet was educated in Oxford; and although it cannot be proven that he was the 'Griffin Roberts Wallicus' who studied at Christ Church College between 1550 and 1555, it was there that Morys Clynnog and Siôn Dafydd Rhys graduated, and an association between Robert and Christ Church cannot be discounted. In November 1558, while still in minor orders, Gruffydd Robert was appointed archdeacon of Anglesey by
ROBERTS, CADWALADR (d. 1708/9), poet harp of Wiliam Llwyd, Llangedwyn, for Siôn Prys is of social interest (Cwrtmawr MS 128A (122)). 'Llyfr Cadwaladr Roberts, 1676' (Cwrtmawr MS 227B), is his anthology of poetry by some of his contemporaries, including Huw Morys and Edward Morris. The tunes to which he wrote are frequently noted in the manuscripts. He was a very mediocre poet, and his poetry contains a profusion of colloquial forms. His
ROBERTS, HUW (fl. c. 1555-1619), poet, author, and cleric (controversy) poems addressed to Gruffudd Llwyd, and also to Llywelyn Siôn of Glamorgan. His prose work, The day of Hearing: or six lectures upon the latter part of the third Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews …, was published in London in 1600.
ROBERTS, IOAN (1941 - 2019), journalist, producer and author begin work as an engineer first with Montgomeryshire County Council and then with Shrewsbury Town Council. It was in Montgomeryshire in the 1970s that he met Alwena James; they married and had two children, Sion and Lois. During this period Ioan Roberts began writing articles for the Welsh-language newspaper Y Cymro about the area and his portraits of local characters became very popular. He soon came
ROBERTS, JOHN (Siôn Robert Lewis; 1731 - 1806), author, almanack-maker, and hymn-writer
ROBERTS, JOHN (Siôn Lleyn; 1749 - 1817), poet, schoolmaster, and religious pioneer Gaingc; see also Adgof uwch anghof by John Jones (Myrddin Fardd), and the Myrddin Fardd manuscripts in N.L.W. Siôn Lleyn wrote some hymns also. He died 7 May 1817 and was buried in Deneio churchyard, Pwllheli.
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1777 - 1836), almanack-maker and printer Born in 1777, son of John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) whom he succeeded as the publisher and compiler of the popular Holyhead almanacks known as Cyfaill Glandeg, Cyfaill Taeredd, etc., for the years 1805 to 1837. These almanacks were printed by John Jones of Trefriw under a fictitious Dublin imprint in order to avoid Government tax. He also published Eurgrawn Môn, neu y Drysorfa Hanesyddol, 1825
ROBIN CLIDRO (fl. 1580), itinerant minstrel which seems never to have been used for serious poetry. It is a variation of the metre known as cyhydedd hir, with a touch of cynghanedd between the third and fourth lines. An elegy upon Robin, full of faulty cynghanedd in the manner of the bard himself, was sung by Siôn Tudur, and it is stated in the title that he was murdered by highwaymen in South Wales. But this may, like many another, be a mock
RODERICK, JOHN (1673 - 1735), grammarian, printer and publisher of almanacks and books, poet, and eisteddfodwr . 14874 (which he had owned) is written ' Llyfr Cywyddau Siôn Rhydderch, 1709; b. April 11, 1675 '. He printed and published in Shrewsbury his Grammadeg Cymraeg, 1728; a second edition was published at Carmarthen in 1824. With the collaboration of John Williams, Witley, Salop, he produced and published an English and Welch Dictionary, of which three editions appeared. He had before this begun to prepare
ROGERS, JOHN (d. 1738), bookseller and printer later. Nicholas Thomas was apprenticed either to John Rogers or to John Roderick (Siôn Rhydderch). One John Rogers, a bookseller, was buried 9 May 1738. Fuller details are given in the works listed below.

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