Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, SAMUEL (S.R.; 1800 - 1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer
ROBERTS, IEUAN WYN PRITCHARD (1930 - 2013), journalist and politician surprised friends of his at the time. For the Conservative Party itself to have someone who was first-language Welsh was quite a triumph. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Wales Peter Thomas 1970-1974, and was Opposition spokesman on Wales 1974-1979. After the Conservative victory in the 1979 election he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1835 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister office of Thomas Gee, where he remained from 1850 to 1859, first as a compositor and then as one of Gee's assistant editors, and where he wrote extensively for the Faner Fach. In January 1859 the Calvinistic Methodists' monthly meeting, held at Llanelidan, arranged for him to start preaching, and he went to Bala C.M. College, where he spent the next five years, leaving in April 1864. His first church
ROBERTS, THOMAS (d. c. 1775), first Baptist convert in Anglesey
ROBERTS, THOMAS (Scorpion; 1816 - 1887), Independent minister
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1884 - 1960), educationalist and scholar the Normal College, Bangor, and was vice-principal from 1920 till his retirement in 1949. As a scholar Thomas Roberts was interested in the works of the poets of the gentry throughout his life. The subject of his M.A. dissertation in 1910 was the poetry of Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan. In 1914 he published Gwaith Dafydd ab Edmwnd in the Bangor Welsh Manuscripts Society ” series. The work was
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1765-6 - 1841) Llwyn'rhudol, pamphleteer He was the son of William Roberts, attorney-at-law, of Llwyn'rhudol, Aber-erch, near Pwllheli, and of Jane, his wife. He was christened 'with private baptism' on 16 August 1767, but as he is stated to have been 76 when he died, on 24 May 1841, it would appear that he was born either in 1765 or in 1766. His father was buried on 16 January 1778. Thomas Roberts states that before he was 14 years old
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1760 - 1811), printer it is not known for certain where he was born. He was at Trevecka for a time. He is sometimes confused with the Thomas Roberts (1735 - 1804) above. He went to Caernarvon in 1796 and he appears to have begun to print at Caernarvon in 1797. In 1800 he printed the first number of what was intended to be a periodical - Greal neu Eurgrawn …, of which, however, no more numbers appeared; seven years
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1735 - 1804), member of the 'Trevecka Family' Born at Plas-bach, Llansantffraid-glan-Conwy, 31 March 1735, third son of WILLIAM ROBERTS, a freeholder who was converted in 1748 by Peter Williams, knew John Wesley, and adhered to Howel Harris in the Disruption of 1750, so much so that he recalled his son Thomas, who was in service at Bala, from that 'Rowlandist' camp. In 1759 William Roberts abandoned his property at Plas-bach to his elder
ROBERTS, THOMAS FRANCIS (1860 - 1919), principal, University College, Aberystwyth Born at Aberdyfi, 25 September 1860, eldest son of Thomas Roberts, sergeant of police, and Anne his wife. He was educated at Towyn and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. From there he went, in 1879, as a scholar to S. John's College, Oxford, where he obtained 1st classes in classical honour moderations (1881), and litterae humaniores (1883). He took his B.A. in 1883, and in the same
ROBERTS, THOMAS OSBORNE (1879 - 1948), musician Born 12 February 1879 at Weston Rhyn, near Oswestry, Salop, son of Evan Thomas Roberts and his wife Hephsibah Roberts; the family moved in 1890 to Ysbyty Ifan, Denbighshire, to keep a shop. He was educated at the county school, Llanrwst, Salop School, Oswestry, the county school, Porthmadog, and the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He was articled to Major Barnes, agent of the Chirk
ROBERTS, THOMAS ROWLAND (Asaph; 1857? - 1940), biographer

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