Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, RICHARD (1874 - 1945), preacher, theologian and author Born 31 May 1874, son of David and Margaret Roberts (nêe Jones). His father was minister of the CM church of Rhiw, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire. He was educated at the Liverpool Institute High School, U.C.W., Aberystwyth and Bala Theological college. He was a minister with the Forward Movement in the Cardiff area 1896-98. He became assistant and secretary to principal Thomas Charles Edwards
ROBERTS, RICHARD (1789 - 1864), inventor in France), but in 1828 he was in partnership with Thomas Sharpe. Sharpe died in 1842, and Roberts was on his own till 1845; from 1845 till 1851 he was joined by a Fothergill, but the partnership was not successful, and Roberts then set up as a consulting engineer, subsequently (1861) removing to London (Adam Street, Adelphi), where he died 11 March 1864; he was buried in Kensal Green. He was twice
ROBERTS, RICHARD (Bardd Treflys; 1818 - 1876), poet Son of Thomas and Mary Roberts, Garthmorthin, Treflys, between Portmadoc and Criccieth, Caernarfonshire - he hailed from the family of ' Dafydd y Garreg Wen '. When he was about 20 years of age, he went to live at Ty-mawr, Treflys, the home of Griffith Roberts, an uncle, and spent the remainder of his days there, unmarried. He was a zealous member of the Cefnymeusydd literary society - see Ellis
ROBERTS, RICHARD ARTHUR (1851 - 1943), archivist and editor Study of the Published Registers (London, 1920). He published two articles dealing with Welsh records, ' The Public Records relating to Wales ' (Cymm., 1889), and ' Welsh Records and a Record Office for Wales ' (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion., 1915-16). He married Agnes, daughter of Samuel Hallam in 1884, and they had a son and three daughters. He died 2 April 1943 at
ROBERTS, ROBERT (Bob Tai'r Felin; 1870 - 1951), folk singer he was winner of the folk song competition. About this period ' Parti Tai'r Felin ' was formed, its members being Robert Lloyd ('Llwyd o'r Bryn'), John Thomas and his daughter, Lizzie Jane, Bob Roberts and his daughter, Harriet; this popular party entertained audiences throughout Wales, and also parts of England. From 1944 onward, he became the idol of the nation due to the impact he made when he
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1834 - 1885), cleric and scholar picture of Welsh life in the middle of the 19th century. He returned to Wales in 1875 and was for three years a private tutor at Betws, near Abergele. He also did much lexicographical work, and D. Silvan Evans profited very greatly from Roberts's work and the materials which he supplied. His last years were spent in desultory teaching; he died at Llanrwst, and was buried at Llangernyw, 15 April 1885
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1762 - 1802), Calvinistic Methodist preacher Born 12 September 1762, son of Robert Thomas and Catherine Jones, Y Ffridd, Baladeulyn, Caernarfonshire. He was still a boy when he went to work in Cilgwyn quarry. Although his family attended church and Sunday school Robert, was a bit of a wastrel; but when he was about 16 years of age he was taken by his brother John (John Roberts, 1753 - 1834) to listen to David Jones of Llan-gan at Bryn'rodyn
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 (1680 - 1741), cleric in English, A duo-glott-exposition of the Creed, the ten Commandments and the Lords Prayer, calculated for the borders of England and Wales, but particularly for the use of the parish of Chirk, whose inhabitants are partly Welsh and partly English, by R. R. A. M. Vicar of the said parish of Chirk. [ Motto ] Shrewsbury printed, by Thomas Durston [without date], and in Welsh Sacrament Catechism, neu
ROBERTS, ROBERT ALUN (1894 - 1969), Professor of Agricultural Botany at University College, Bangor, and a naturalist Born 10 March 1894, at Glan Gors, Tan'rallt, Dyffryn Nantlle, Caernarfonshire, son of Robert Roberts (brother of Owen Roberts, father of Dr. Kate Roberts) and Jane Thomas. He received his primary education at Nebo school and won a scholarship to Pen-y-groes county school. For a period, he was a pupil teacher before securing a place in University College, Bangor in 1911. He was awarded a B.Sc
ROBERTS, ROBERT GRIFFITH (1866 - 1930), Baptist minister, and writer Born 13 December 1866, at Tyddyn Llidiart, Dyffryn Ardudwy, younger son of Morris and Catrin Roberts; the father, a 'character,' was a Calvinistic Methodist, but the mother (née Evans, of a family hailing from Llanystumdwy - and a descendant of the Lloyd of Cwmbychan in Ardudwy, for whom see under John Lloyd, 1733 - 1793) was a Sandemanian Baptist, and brought up her two sons in that connexion
ROBERTS, ROBERT HENRY (1838 - 1900), Baptist minister and principal of Regent's Park College, London Baptist Union; and (3) The Spiritual Mind, 1902, edited by his son, Rev. J. E. Roberts, Manchester. His brother, FREDERICK THOMAS ROBERTS (died 28 July 1918), was professor of medicine in University College, London, and author of a medical textbook which went into ten editions. The University of Wales conferred an honorary D.Sc. degree upon him in 1910. (Who was Who.)

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