Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, KATE (1891 - 1985), author the army. It was during her time in Ystalyfera that the first inklings of her future life as a writer first manifested themselves. She formed a close friendship with two other young women teachers, Betty Eynon Davies and Margaret Price, and the three co-wrote, produced and acted in several short plays, including Y Fam (The Mother), Y Canpunt (The Hundred Pounds) and Wel! Wel! (Well! well!), which
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 DAVIES (1851 - 1911), pioneer in adult education and scientist associated with Trade Unions, the Co-operative Movement, and the Workers' Educational Association. As a scholar and experienced administrator he helped to establish the University of Wales. He was junior deputy chancellor in 1903 and chairman of its executive committee in 1911.
ROBERTS, ROBERT ELLIS VAUGHAN (1888 - 1962), headmaster and naturalist ). He was co-editor and contributor to the Chester and North Wales Natural Society from 1947-1954. He was awarded the Kinsey Memorial Medal in 1934 ' for material contributions to several branches of natural science '. He and Prof. R. Alun Roberts were the first experts on the Welsh radio naturalist programme Byd Natur which started in January 1951. In the last decade of his life he was dealt a
ROBERTS, SAMUEL (S.R.; 1800 - 1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer be removed to Newtown under George Lewis, as a candidate for the ministry. On 15 August 1827 he was ordained as co- pastor with his father at Llanbryn-mair. He soon became prominent as a preacher, a frequent contributor to the press, and a keen competitor in eisteddfodau. In 1830 he published a small volume of poems, including a lyric exposing the cruelties of slavery; he remained a keen advocate
ROBERTS, THOMAS (Scorpion; 1816 - 1887), Independent minister Bala, and he used to go as far afield as Rhyd-y-main to hold classes in literature. In November 1848 an article of his published in Y Dysgedydd under the title 'Ocheneidiau'r Weinidogaeth' ('The Groans of the Ministry') caused an uproar throughout the country. He was ferociously attacked and, if possible, even more ferociously defended by his former co-student, Ieuan Gwynedd. Scorpion, like other
ROBERTS, WILLIAM JOHN (1904 - 1967), Methodist minister and ecumenist family. It is only as a unity that it can take place alongside the other denominations in the Principality'. As joint secretary of the Standing Committee for Methodism in Wales, established in 1957 to further closer co-operation between the English and Welsh causes, he actively promoted the establishment of area committees throughout Wales with the ultimate aim of unifying Methodism while accepting
ROBERTSON, HENRY (1816 - 1888), civil engineer and railway pioneer , Corwen, Bala, etc. Side by side with these activities Robertson maintained an active interest in numerous commercial enterprises. He was an original partner in Beyer, Peacock and Co., owners of the largest locomotive works in the country, and he took a leading part in the conduct of several collieries and works in Denbighshire. He became the founder of the Brymbo Steel Works in 1884. He was Member of
ROWLANDS, ROBERT JOHN (Meuryn; 1880 - 1967), journalist, writer, poet, lecturer, preacher 1950 Meuryn became co-editor with S.B. Jones (1894 - 1964) see JONES (Family) until his death 2 November 1967. At the time of his death he was a widower; he left 2 sons and 3 daughters. He was buried in Caernarfon cemetery. He was a man of wide interests - a naturalist with a particular enthusiasm for medicinal herbs, a photographer, a chess player and in his youth, a billiards player. On Sundays he
ROWLANDS, ROBERT PUGH (1874 - 1933), chief surgeon of Guy's Hospital in surgery. In 1922 he was elected to the council of the Royal College of Surgeons and in 1927 he was the co-editor of the seventh edition of Jacobson's work, Operations of Surgery. He had already co-edited the volume in 1907 and 1915. In 1929 he was appointed Bradshaw lecturer to the Royal College of Surgeons and his chosen subject was surgery to the bile duct and gall bladder. In July 1930 he was
SALMON, HARRY MORREY (1891 - 1985), conservationist, naturalist, soldier , subsequently being reported in the Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society, vol. LIV. Together they were to become authors of no fewer than eight Welsh county avifaunas, commencing with Glamorgan in 1925 and concluding with Cardiganshire, with W. M. Condry as a co-editor, in 1966. In addition Ingram and Salmon were contributors of articles to the Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society and
SAMUEL, CHRISTMAS (1674 - 1764), Independent minister residing in five parishes, to become the minister of Panteg. He was ordained the same day - the most independent Independent ordination ever heard of. His labours and his influence went on apace and he succeeded in building a powerful church in the Independent tradition. For a long period Milbourn Bloom was a co-worker. Samuel was a supporter of many weak churches and of every elevating influence in the

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