Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, EDWARD (1886 - 1975), minister (Bapt.) and college principal marking the third jubilee of the College's foundation. After his retirement, he lived for a time in Cardiff, travelling on Sundays to serve the churches in the South Wales valleys. When his wife died in 1968 he moved to live with one of his doctor sons, first in Worcester and later in Birkenhead. His last years were spent in Glyn Nest, the retirement home opened by the Baptists in Newcastle Emlyn. He
ROBERTS, EDWARD STANTON (1878 - 1938), schoolteacher and scholar Cemetery. In 1919 he married Annie, daughter of Robert and Alice Roberts, Cefn Post, Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr. They had three children. Stanton Roberts was a good scholar and, according to some, one of the best palaeographers in Wales at the time. He was also a poet and writer of englynion (strict-metre quatrains). A very close friend of his, from Aberystwyth days, was poet Thomas Gwynn Jones who bore
ROBERTS, ELLIS (Eos Llyfnwy, Robin Ddu Eifionydd; 1827 - 1895) prepared for ordination. He was ordained deacon (at S. Asaph) in 1862 and became curate at Rhosymedre, Denbighshire; he was priested in 1863. He became rector of Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr in 1866 and left that living in 1872 for the neighbouring vicariate of Llangwm, Denbighshire, where he died 23 April 1895. Elis Wyn became well known as a poet and a literary adjudicator; he also edited Yr Haul from 1885
ROBERTS, GLYN (1904 - 1962), historian and administrator dynasty, are his most mature contribution to this topic and provide a foretaste of the masterpiece which would have resulted had he lived. After his death a collection of his main articles was published under the title Aspects of Welsh History (1969). Glyn Roberts possessed an incisive and analytical mind which led him patiently to unravel all complex problems before arriving at the heart of the matter
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1912 - 1969), priest and poet rector of Mellteyrn, Botwnnog and Bryncroes, diocese of Bangor, and became vicar of Blaenau Ffestiniog 1951-56. He obtained the living of Conwy with Gyffin in 1956. According to one adjudicator, he was worthy of the crown at the national eisteddfod, Rhosllannerchrugog, 1945, for his pryddest ' Coed Celyddon '. He won the crown at the national eisteddfod, Colwyn Bay, 1947, for his pryddest ' Glyn y
ROBERTS, LEWIS JONES (1866 - 1931), inspector of schools, and musician separately published (at Caernarvon, etc.). His best-known hymn-tune was that written to the words beginning ' Bydd canu yn y Nefoedd,' which proved a firm favourite with both children and older people. He wrote a short account (in Welsh) of Owain Glyn Dŵr (published at Wrexham, 1904, with at least two other editions) and edited Awelon o Hiraethog, vol. i, containing selections from the poetical works of
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1800 - 1878), schoolmaster and Calvinistic Methodist minister Born near Tre'r Ddôl, Llangynfelyn, Cardiganshire, in 1800, the son of John and Betty Roberts, but was brought up at Glandŵr, near Gogerddan. His family worshipped at Pen-y-garn. He was educated at Llanfihangel-genau'r glyn, in a local grammar school of repute, kept by a master chosen from the best pupils at Ystrad Meurig. There he studied the classics. He was for a time schoolmaster at Staines
ROWLAND, ELLIS (c. 1650 - c. 1730) Harlech, bard englynion and poems in free metre - cerddi and carolau plygain. Examples of his work are found in Cardiff MSS. 47, 48, and 64, and in the following MSS. in N.L.W. - Cwrtmawr MS 12B, Cwrtmawr MS 69C, Cwrtmawr MS 128A, Cwrtmawr MS 230B, Glyn Davies 1, Plas Nantglyn 3, Brogyntyn 3, Wynnstay 7, NLW MS 593E, NLW MS 673D, NLW MS 783B, NLW MS 836D, NLW MS 1238B, NLW MS 1244D, NLW MS 1485A, NLW MS 1578B, NLW MS
ROWLAND, THOMAS (1824 - 1884), cleric and grammarian desire for holy orders, and went to Llandovery, at that time under John Williams (1792 - 1858); he did very well there, becoming eventually Welsh master at the school, and publishing his A grammar of the Welsh language in 1853. He was ordained in 1854, and, after serving as curate at Llansantffraid Glyn Dyfrdwy and at Llanrwst, was promoted by bishop Short, after the exceptionally short period of two
SALUSBURY family Rug, Bachymbyd, estate passed to his younger brother, Griffith Howel Vaughan. When Griffith died in 1848 it was inherited by his nephew, Sir Robert Williames Vaughan of Nannau and Ystumcolwyn, from whom it passed to Charles Henry Wynn (1847 - 1911) of Glynllifon, third son of Spencer Bulkeley Wynn, 3rd baron Newborough (see Glyn of Glynllifon family, and Wynn family of Rug). CHARLES SALUSBURY, second surviving son of
SCUDAMORE family lordship of Abergavenny by the marriage of Sir ALAN SCUDAMORE with the daughter and sole heiress of the lord of Troy, not far from Monmouth. Four generations later Sir Alan's great-grandson married ALICE, one of the daughters of Owain Glyn Dwr. Sir JOHN SCUDAMORE I, Owain's son-in-law, was at the outset of the rebellion in royal service, and in 1403 was actually the custodian on the king's behalf of
SHADRACH, AZARIAH (1774 - 1844), schoolmaster, Independent minister, and author Jubili, 1819; (12) Cerbyd Aur, 1820; (13) Tabernacl Newydd, 1821; (14) Myfyrdodau Ysbrydol, 1821; (15) Glyn Angeu, 1821?; (16) Dyfroedd Siloam, 1827; (17) Gwallt Sampson, 1831; (18) Cangen o rawn camphir, 1833; (19) Myrr Dyferol, 1833; (20) Meditations on Jewels, 1833; (21) Tlysau Aur, 1837; (22) Blodau y Ffigysbren, 1837; (23) Cerbyd o Coed Libanus, 1840. No. 4 was translated into English by Edward S

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