Dictionary of Welsh Biography

RICHARD, EDWARD (1714 - 1777), schoolmaster, scholar, and poet 1736 he returned to Ystradmeurig, where he opened a school which became famous, turning out a number of pupils who subsequently played an important part in many spheres. He died 4 March 1777. Edward Richard showed his first pastoral to Ieuan Brydydd Hir, Lewis Morris, and Richard Morris, and it was first published in the 1767 Almanac of Gwilym Howel. In 1776 there was published in Shrewsbury, by J
RICHARDS, DAVID WILLIAM (1893 - 1949), preacher and philosopher appointed lecturer in philosophy in the Extramural Department of Birmingham University in June 1931. The family moved to Leamington Spa but he continued to preach in Wales and in England. David Richards married Margaret Jane, the daughter of Daniel and Sarah Davies, Capel Isaac, and they had six sons, all of whom had a university education. Tragedy befell the family in January 1949 when one son, Gwilym
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1710 - 1790), cleric and lexicographer the parish of Coychurch. What became of them is not known, but Iolo maintained that it was in those manuscripts that he 'discovered' many of his fictions, such as the 'Aberpergwm Brut' and some of the cywyddau which he said were written by Dafydd ap Gwilym. According to William Thomas's diary, as printed in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, 1949 (48), Richards died 20 March
ROBERT ap GWILYM DDU - see WILLIAMS, ROBERT
ROBERTS, GEORGE (1769 - 1853), settler and Independent minister in U.S.A. who married William Newell and became the grandmother of Richard Newell. Of the seven children of Evan Roberts's first marriage, John (1767 - 1834) is separately noticed; Elizabeth (Lewis) had two sons, of whom the elder became a justice of the peace at Ebensburg, Pa., and the younger a minister in Indiana; and Mary (Williams) was the mother of William Williams (Gwilym Cyfeiliog, 1801 - 1876) and of
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH (Gwrtheyrn; 1846 - 1915), littérateur Born 7 October 1846 at Hendrebach, Gwytherin, Denbighshire. After very little schooling, he was apprenticed at 10 with a weaver at Ysbyty Ifan, and benefited greatly from the vigorous literary and musical life of Pentrefoelas in those days. He was afterwards for a while at Llanrwst, in the employ of Gwilym Cowlyd, but returned to his weaving, living after his marriage (1869) in the house attached
ROBERTS, GWILYM OWEN (1909 - 1987), author, lecturer, minister and psychologist Gwilym O. Roberts (in error, a full middle name was not registered on his birth certificate though his university records have Owen), was born 22 July 1909 in Cerniog, Pistyll, son to William Owen Roberts, a farmer and well known lay preacher, and his wife Mary Elisabeth Roberts, a seamstress. He received his education at Pwllheli County School and then went on to Aberystwyth University in 1929
ROBERTS, IOAN (1941 - 2019), journalist, producer and author to realize that he was no engineer, but a man of words. He decided to apply for a job as a journalist with Y Cymro, and even though he had no formal qualifications the editor, D. Llion Griffiths, had no doubt that he was the man for the job. Gwilym Owen noticed Ioan Roberts's capabilities as a journalist and appointed him as an editor on the HTV news programme Y Dydd in 1977. When S4C was
ROBERTS, JOHN (Ieuan Gwyllt; 1822 - 1877), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and musician British school which, however, he left after nine months to become clerk to Messrs. Hughes and Roberts, solicitors; he stayed in that post for nearly seven years. In 1852 he became assistant editor of Yr Amserau, a Liverpool Welsh newspaper of which William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) was editor; this connection was maintained until 1858. On 15 June 1856 he preached his first sermon - at Runcorn. In 1858 he
ROBERTS, JOHN (Alaw Elwy, Telynor Cymru; 1816 - 1894), harpist violin, and the flute, and they gave a concert before queen Victoria at Pale, Meironnydd, when she visited that house in 1889. Four years previously (1885) he had given up calling himself Alaw Elwy on being invested by Gwilym Cowlyd as 'Telynor Cymru' in a bardic 'gorsedd' held on the shores of Llyn Geirionydd (1886). He died 11 May 1894. He was a fluent Romany -speaker.
ROBERTS, JOHN (Jack Russia; 1899 - 1979), miner, councillor and a prominent member of the Welsh Communist Party Eisteddfod of Wales to Caerffili in 1950. He was the Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee and was thrilled with the Ode to the miner which won the Chair. He learnt by heart large portions of the winning ode by the Reverend Gwilym R. Tilsley. He had a high regard for ministers of his denomination, and he spoke often of the contribution of Reverend T. H. Griffiths, first full-time Secretary of the Lord's
ROBERTS, LEWIS (1596 - 1640), merchant and writer on economics His family (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 96) is an interesting example of Welsh infiltration into the English boroughs of north-west Wales. Its first member known to us is a Gruffydd Llwyd (died 1375), who lived in the bond vill of Penhwnllys in Dindaethwy commote, i.e. on land which had once belonged to the house of Ednyfed Fychan - by 1413 these lands were in the possession of Gwilym Gruffydd of

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