Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, ROBERT (1774 - 1849), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymnist -y-clawdd farm, Rhosllannerch-rugog; he gave up his craft and went to live on that farm - he is generally known as ' Robert Roberts of Rhos.' According to Roger Edwards his preaching was of a philosophical cast, and his views brought him, as they brought John Jones of Tal-y-sarn, John Hughes, (1796 - 1860), and Morris Roberts, into great disfavour with the reactionaries among the Flintshire
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 (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 (1800 - 1878), schoolmaster and Calvinistic Methodist minister , where he improved his command of English. He became a member of the Calvinistic Methodist church in Jewin Crescent, London. When he was about 40 he was called to succeed the Rev. John Jones in the mastership of a grammar school at Llangeitho. He had acquired some experience as a public speaker, particularly on temperance, and as a Sunday school catechist. He was considered to be an excellent speaker
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 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 - the followers of John Richard Jones. Baptized c. 1880, and elected deacon when not quite 17, R. G. Roberts soon felt chafed by the rigidity of the little connexion, and went over to the older Baptist denomination. His schooling (at Dyffryn, and at Towyn, Meironnydd) was interrupted; but in 1886 he went to the Baptist College at Llangollen, and thence to the University College at Bangor, where he
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.)
ROBERTS, SAMUEL (S.R.; 1800 - 1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer had been secured. He still strove against trade unionism and state aid in education, but his influence had passed its heyday. His arguments against voting by ballot, on the grounds that it savoured of cowardice, were not popular. His closing years were clouded by a series of acrimonious disputes, and the denominational quarrel over Michael D. Jones. But in 1883 he received a further demonstration of
ROBERTS, IEUAN WYN PRITCHARD (1930 - 2013), journalist and politician Wyn Roberts was born on 10 July 1930 in Llansadwrn, Anglesey, the son of the Reverend Evan Roberts and his wife Margaret (née Jones). His father was a Methodist minister at Capel Penucheldref and writer of a weekly column in Y Goleuad. His mother was a teacher at the local school, the schoolhouse also being the Roberts family residence. He attended Beaumaris County School until he won a
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 His first home was Y Myfyrian Uchaf, but he spent the latter part of his life at Trehwfa-fawr near Rhos-tre-hwfa in Cerrig Ceinwen. He was originally a Congregational member and lay preacher at Rhos-y-meirch, but he came under the influence of David Jones, Baptist minister at Wrexham, and in 1763 (1768 according to Frimston), with the approbation of his fellow-members, he went there to be

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