Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1912 - 1969), priest and poet island a few days later. 'Enlli'r Pererinion' was the title of his radio pryddest. His voice was familiar throughout Wales when he began to broadcast regularly in the Sunday evening programme, Wedi'r Oedfa. He wrote a number of feature programmes for the B.B.C., e.g. Edmwnd Prys, Bishop William Morgan, Ieuan Glan Geirionydd, etc. He was a lyric poet composing in the Christian tradition. His
ROBERTS, JOHN (Jack Russia; 1899 - 1979), miner, councillor and a prominent member of the Welsh Communist Party constituency by the Communist candidate, Robert (Bob) Stewart. Though he received only 2,592 votes compared with 13,699 for the Labour candidate, Morgan Jones, and the Liberal-Conservative candidate W. R. Edmunds with his 8,958 votes, the young miner decided on the night of the election, 24 August, to join the Communist Party. He spoke so forcefully during the 1926 General Strike about Russia's support of
ROBERTS, ROBERT ELLIS VAUGHAN (1888 - 1962), headmaster and naturalist naturalist, Richard Morgan (1854 - 1939). In 1942 he was appointed the first head of the elementary agricultural technical school at Llysfasi but in 1948 returned to the headship of Llanarmon-yn-Iâl school, a post which he held until his retirement in 1953. Throughout his life he was a regular contributor to a number of Welsh and English journals incl. Y Cymro, Yr Herald Cymraeg, Meirionnydd, Yr Athro
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1835 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister of the North Wales Home Mission, 1889-99, his annual report being published as an appendix to the Drysorfa. He was an excellent writer, a powerful preacher, and a keen student of the works of Morgan Llwyd. He died at Bangor, 24 November 1899.
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (fl. 1745), poet and writer of interludes Born in the parish of Llannor, Caernarfonshire. He acted as sexton at Llannor and was on very friendly terms with the vicar, John Owen (1698 - 1755). One of his poems, ' I Ofyn Pen Rhaw,' was published in D. Jones, Blodeu-Gerdd Cymry, and englynion by him are found in Cwrtmawr MS 226B and Cwrtmawr MS 771B in N.L.W. He also composed an interlude attacking the Methodists, Interlude Morgan y Gogrwr
ROBERTS, WILLIAM MORGAN (1853 - 1923), musician
ROGERS, JOHN (d. 1738), bookseller and printer Welsh books: Egwyddorion y Grefydd Gristianogawl and Godidawgrwydd Rhinwedd, and in 1708 he printed for the Company of Stationers, London, an almanack (for 1709) called Cennad oddiwrth y Ser …, and, in 1714, Dirgelwch …, Morgan Llwyd o Wynedd's best-known work. J. H. Davies (Bibliog. of Welsh Ballads) records only one Welsh ballad as printed by Rogers. Rogers continued to print until 1729, if not
ROWLANDS, CEINWEN (1905 - 1983), singer Born 15 January 1905 in Holyhead, Anglesey, the only child of William Rowlands and his wife Kate (Jones). Her father, who was a native of Holyhead, kept the Anglesey Emporium, a men's outfitters shop, until his retirement in 1929; her mother, who came from Cerrigydrudion, Denbighshire, was a well known singer. Educated at Morgan Jones's school, Holyhead and Bangor County School for Girls, Ceinwen
ROWLANDS, JANE HELEN (Helen o Fôn; 1891 - 1955), linguist, teacher and missionary (with the CM) 1911 and was awarded the George Osborne Morgan Scholarship which enabled her to proceed to Newnham College, Cambridge, but she stayed there for a term only. In a dilemma she returned home to discuss matters with her minister. Between September 1912 and June 1913 she taught French at her old school, spending the summer in France. In September 1913 she was appointed a teacher at the girls' Central
ROWLANDS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Lleyn; 1802 - 1865), Wesleyan minister, and bibliographer Geiriadur Bywgraffiadol o Enwogion Cymru (Liverpool, 1870), and referred to it there as the ' Lleyn MSS. ' A memoir of Rowlands, by his son-in-law, R. Morgan, appeared in the twelve issues of Yr Eurgrawn Wesleaidd for 1868; see also D. Silvan Evans's preface to Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry.
SALESBURY, WILLIAM (1520? - 1584?), scholar and chief translator of the first Welsh New Testament and there was no Welsh version of the Old Testament until (bishop) William Morgan published his translation of the Bible in 1588. Salesbury's translations were severely criticized and, indeed, were barely welcomed, owing to the fact that they were so full of Latinisms and other orthographical peculiarities as to be unintelligible to a great many of his contemporaries. For all that, they were fine
SAMUEL, WYNNE ISLWYN (1912 - 1989), local government officer, Plaid Cymru activist and organiser cent of the vote, a respectable poll for a nationalist in one of the Labour Party's rock-solid seats. Samuel was also the Plaid Cymru organiser in the Ogmore by-election of June 1946 when the party candidate Trefor Morgan polled an impressive 5,684 votes (29.4 per cent of the total poll). These spirited campaigns proved invaluable to Plaid Cymru in helping to put down roots in the south Wales valleys

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