Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
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 ALUN (1894 - 1969), Professor of Agricultural Botany at University College, Bangor, and a naturalist tyddynnwr-chwarelwr yn Nyffryn Nantlle (Pen-y-groes Library Annual Lecture, 1968); Yr elfen fugeiliol ym mywyd Cymru (Radio Lecture, 1968) and co-author of Commons and Village Green (1967). He married Jennie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Morris Williams, Cae Mawr, Tan'rallt, in 1924, and they had one daughter.
ROBERTS, ROBERT DAVID (1820 - 1893), Baptist minister Born 3 November 1820 in a house near the old Sardis chapel, Dinorwic, Caernarfonshire. He and John Jones (1821 - 1879; see Spinther, iv, 327-9) were cousins. He received very little education as a child nor was he given any college training after he had started to preach. He was baptised at the age of 12 and began to preach in 1839. He spent a short time as a missionary for the Caernarvonshire
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 Born at Carmarthen, 1838, son of John Nathan Roberts, ironmonger of that town and deacon at Tabernacle Baptist church. He was a student at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, 1852-7, and thereafter at the Baptist College, Bristol, until 1859, when he graduated B.A. (London). He held the pastorates of Bootle, 1861-9, and Cornwall Road, Notting Hill, London, 1869-91, and was principal and
ROBERTS, SAMUEL (S.R.; 1800 - 1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer Born 6 March 1800, eldest son of John and Mary Roberts (née Breese), of Llanbryn-mair, where his father John Roberts (1767 - 1834) was Independent minister, 1794-1834. He received his early education at the local school kept by his father, and at Shrewsbury, 1810-12. It is claimed that he was one of the earliest in Wales to master shorthand. In 1819 he entered the Academy at Llanfyllin, soon to
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 (1835 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at the Green, near Denbigh, 19 August 1835, son of John and Jane Powel Roberts. For a short time he attended the school kept by Jonah Lloyd, an Independent preacher; after which he went for a year as a farmer's boy to his uncle at Tŷ-draw, near Mold. After that, he went to the British School at Denbigh where Macaulay, the schoolmaster, was kind to him. He served his apprenticeship in the
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1884 - 1960), educationalist and scholar Born 26 December 1884 at Pandy, Llanuwchllyn, Merionethshire, son of John Roberts. He was educated at Llanuwchllyn school, Bala county school and the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He graduated with honours in Welsh in 1907, and took his M.A. degree in 1910. He was a school teacher at Abertyswg, Monmouth 1907-08, and in a school in London 1908-10. He was then appointed Welsh tutor at
ROBERTS, THOMAS OSBORNE (1879 - 1948), musician services were much in demand as accompanist and adjudicator. He died at Wrexham Hospital, 21 June 1948, and was buried in Ysbyty Ifan churchyard four days later. He had been married twice, his second wife being Leila Megáne (Margaret Hughes).
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Nefydd; 1813 - 1872), Baptist minister, printer, author, eisteddfodwr, South Wales representative of the British and Foreign Schools Society Born 8 March 1813 in Bryngoleu, in the parish of Llanefydd, Denbighshire, son of Robert Roberts, shoemaker, and Anne his wife (see NLW MS 7000E for the names of some of the ancestors of the parents). He received but little education in his boyhood. He was taught his father's craft, and after a while went to Llanddulas to work for one Humphrey Jones. He was baptised in 1832 by John Evans

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