Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, JOHN (1775 - 1829), cleric and author in 1803 curate to the vicar of Tremeirchion, Flintshire, succeeding to the vicariate in 1807 on the death of his chief. He is most generally remembered for his vigorous opposition to the views of William Owen Pughe on Welsh orthography; when Thomas Charles of Bala, who had been dazzled by Pughe, decided to print the British and Foreign Bible Society's Welsh Bible in Pughe's orthography, a rather
ROBERTS, JOHN (1767 - 1834), Independent minister and theologian ,' which held that it was not right to adopt either the Higher Calvinism on the one hand or the extremes of Arminianism on the other. In view of the stand he took, he was bitterly assailed by both parties but, as he was kind and courteous by nature, this did not perturb him. He wrote a great number of articles to the various periodicals to explain his point of view. Thomas Jones of Denbigh (1759 - 1820
ROBERTS, JOHN (Minimus; 1808 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author shipping company, he became, in 1840, the unpaid secretary of the newly-formed C.M. Foreign Missions Society (see Thomas Jones, 1810 - 1849); from 1861 till his wife's death he lived near Mold. In 1866 his connection with the C.M. Missions was severed, and he removed to Edinburgh, as secretary of the 'Scottish Sabbath Observance Society'. He died there 6 January 1880, and was buried in S. James's
ROBERTS, JOHN (1842 - 1908), Calvinistic Methodist missionary study, mainly medical, in Edinburgh, and on 6 January 1871 was ordained at Salem, Dolgelley. On 31 May of that year he married Sidney Margaret, (1850-1931), daughter of Thomas Jones (Glan Alun), a true fellow-worker. They sailed for India on 27 September 1871, settling first in Shella, but moving to Cherrapoongee five years later. As a pioneer Roberts undertook long and dangerous journeys to preach
ROBERTS, JOHN (Ieuan Gwyllt; 1822 - 1877), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and musician a new era of Welsh congregational singing. To the original work he added an atodiad (supplement), and, in 1870, an ychwanegiad (appendix). He arranged and harmonized a large number of hymn-tunes and psalms and himself composed some two dozen including the very famous tune 'Moab.' At this time he was travelling much throughout Wales to lecture on congregational music. In 1859 he and Thomas Levi
ROBERTS, JOHN (1807 - 1876), musician Born 30 March 1807 at Henllan, near Denbigh; the son of Aaron and Jane Roberts. He attended the village school until he was 13 and, two years later, began to receive instruction from Thomas Jones, Congregational minister, Denbigh. He was taught music by Thomas Daniel, Henllan; he also studied books on music. He collected a large number of hymn-tunes that were used at times of religious revival or
ROBERTS, JOHN (Alaw Elwy, Telynor Cymru; 1816 - 1894), harpist nine and a half years. He then settled at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and remained there for the rest of his life. In 1836 he married Eleanor Wood Jones, daughter of Jeremiah Wood Jones, harpist at Gogerddan for half a century. A pupil of Richard Roberts (1796 - 1855), a Caernarvon harpist, he became a noted harpist and a skilled singer of penillion to the accompaniment of the harp. He won the triple
ROBERTS, JOHN HENRY (Pencerdd Gwynedd; 1848 - 1924), musician ). Other hymnals with which he was connected were Llyfr Hymnau a Thonau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, 1897, Llawlyfr Moliant yr Ysgol Sul, 1897 (with W. T. Samuel), Llyfr Tonau y Methodistiaid Wesleyaidd, 1904 (with D. Emlyn Evans and Wilfred Jones). He was a contributor to Y Cerddor. He died 6 August 1924 and was buried in Smithdown Road cemetery, Liverpool.
ROBERTS, JOHN IORWERTH (1902 - 1970), schoolmaster and secretary of Llangollen International Eisteddfod history. He held classes on the topic for the Workers' Educational Association, and his lecture on the 1858 Llangollen eisteddfod to the Denbighshire History Society was published in the Society's journal in 1959. He married (1) Dilys Alwen Jones (died 11 July 1965) in Rehoboth chapel, Llangollen, in August 1934 and they had one daughter; and married (2) Dilys Jones of Llangollen in King Street
ROBERTS, JOHN JOHN (Iolo Caernarfon; 1840 - 1914), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and prose-writer biography (1912) of Owen Thomas.
ROBERTS, JOHN PRICE (1854 - 1905), Wesleyan minister and author to Yr Eurgrawn, and something of a poet - his elegy on Joseph Thomas won esteem. He published (1903) a (Welsh) biography of Hugh Price Hughes, and was one of the authors of the biography of John Evans (1840 - 1897) of Eglwys-bach.
ROBERTS, KATE (1891 - 1985), author Twm o'r Nant in Denbigh. In 1910, she went to the University College of North Wales, in Bangor, where she was one of a very small number of female students at that time; she was acutely aware of her privilege and of the financial sacrifice her education meant for her parents. She studied Welsh under the charismatic John Morris-Jones and the scholar, Ifor Williams, though again, as in the County

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