Dictionary of Welsh Biography

RICHARDS, FREDERICK CHARLES (1878 - 1932), artist the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers. In 1911 he was commissioned by Sir Alfred T. Davies, permanent secretary of the Welsh Department of the Board of Education, to copy Sir Edwin Poynter's cartoon of S. David for the Ceiriog Memorial Institute, and in 1913 Messrs. Adam and Charles Black invited him to make drawings for the Oxford Sketch Book. This was the first of a series of reproductions of
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1754 - 1837), cleric Thomas Charles, and he served there for fifteen years at a stipend of £30 per annum. He augmented this pittance by keeping a school. After representations made by his friend Thomas Jones and others, he was appointed vicar of Darowen, near Machynlleth, by bishop Bagot of S. Asaph, and instituted to the living in August 1800. He laboured there devotedly till his death on 2 December 1837; he is buried at
RICHARDS, WILLIAM (1749 - 1818), General Baptist minister, theological and political controversialist, and antiquary impoverished him. He first aroused public notice (1781) in debates on baptism, with English Independents; and from 1788 till 1791 he and Benjamin Evans of Dre-wen (1740 - 1821) contended in Welsh on this subject. It must be confessed that Richards, in his debates, would lose all self-control; his sufficiently prickly fellow-heretic Charles Lloyd could say of him that 'his irritability was incredible
ROBARTES, CHARLES BODVEL (1600 - 1697) - see BODVEL
ROBERTS family Mynydd-y-gof, interests at Manchester. Over and above this, he took a prominent part in the public life of the city, and was lord mayor in 1896-7. He was a zealous promoter of higher education in Wales, and from the foundation of University College, Aberystwyth, till his own death - a period of thirty years - he was one of its vice-presidents. [It may now be added that the recent publication of the Thomas Charles
ROBERTS, DAVID (Dewi Ogwen; 1818 - 1897), Independent minister Born 19 April 1818 at Bangor, son of the Rev. Dafydd Roberts, a Calvinistic Methodist preacher and superintendent of one of Charles of Bala's schools; his mother was of the same lineage as John Jones of Tal-y-sarn and Cadwaladr Owen of Dolwyddelan. He was first educated in a private school in the town and later in Dr. Arthur Jones's school. In 1833 he was apprenticed as a printer in the office of
ROBERTS, FREDERICK CHARLES (1862 - 1894), medical missionary - see ROBERTS
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1912 - 1969), priest and poet service to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the translation of the New Testament into Welsh, at Gyffin, the birthplace of Bishop Richard Davies. When the Bishop of Bangor (John Charles Jones) decided to lead a diocesan pilgrimage to Bardsey in 1952 he asked G.J. Roberts to arrange the route and to write the script giving the historical background. He was one of the small band who sailed over to the
ROBERTS, HUGH GORDON (1885 - 1961), surgeon and missionary father's uncle. Frederick Charles Roberts (1862 - 1894), who died young of fever when he was a missionary doctor in Tientsin, was a cousin of his. It is not surprising, therefore, that he changed his mind in the middle of an accountancy course to become a missionary doctor. He graduated M.B., Ch.B., at the University of Liverpool in 1912 and M.D. in 1920. After his marriage to Katharine (died 9 January
ROBERTS, IOAN (1941 - 2019), journalist, producer and author Roberts an enormous debt for the work he did on his autobiographical writings and for his shrewd political judgement. Ioan Roberts was acutely aware of the importance of pictures in journalism. In his role as correspondent for Y Cymro he collaborated for several years with the photographer Geoff Charles, editing and composing texts to accompany his pictures, and he published four collections of
ROBERTS, JOHN (Minimus; 1808 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Second son of Richard Roberts, a ship's chandler, of Liverpool. He became elder (1827?) of Bedford Street C.M. church, began to preach in 1830, and was ordained in 1857 at the Dolgellau Association. He married, in 1849, Elizabeth Milnes, of Oswestry (died 1865). His youngest sister, Ann, became the second wife of the Rev. David Charles (1803 - 1880). While continuing in the employ of sail
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

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