Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, JOHN (Siôn Lleyn; 1749 - 1817), poet, schoolmaster, and religious pioneer , in 1815, Caniadau Newyddion. He removed to Pwllheli and was a schoolmaster there; he was the principal founder of the Calvinistic Methodist cause at Pen-mount chapel in that town and of a Sunday school which flourished some time before Robert Raikes and Thomas Charles (of Bala) began to institute their Sunday schools. Some of his poems were included by David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri) in Corph y
ROBERTS, MICHAEL (d. 1679), principal of Jesus College, Oxford make us forget five things about him; he (with one other) acted as corrector of the press to the Welsh Bible of 1630; he wrote an encomium to the Gemma Cambricum of Richard Jones of Llanfair Caereinion, 1655; he wrote the official Latin imprimatur (24 July 1676) to the second edition of Hanes y Ffydd by Charles Edwards; he supplied many notes about Oxford Welshmen to Anthony Wood for his Athenae
ROBERTS, RICHARD (1874 - 1945), preacher, theologian and author Born 31 May 1874, son of David and Margaret Roberts (nêe Jones). His father was minister of the CM church of Rhiw, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire. He was educated at the Liverpool Institute High School, U.C.W., Aberystwyth and Bala Theological college. He was a minister with the Forward Movement in the Cardiff area 1896-98. He became assistant and secretary to principal Thomas Charles Edwards
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1765-6 - 1841) Llwyn'rhudol, pamphleteer dated 17 November 1796) and was probably responsible for its foundation. He published Cwyn yn erbyn Gorthrymder (London, 1798), a satirical pamphlet mainly directed against the payment of tithes. He was not a Calvinist but, under the name of 'Arvonius,' he published Amddiffyniad y Methodistiaid (Carmarthen, 1806) against the attacks of Edward Charles. Later he produced An English and Welsh Vocabulary
ROBERTS, WILLIAM CHARLES (1832 - 1903), Presbyterian minister, principal of colleges, and author
ROBERTS, WILLIAM JOHN (1904 - 1967), Methodist minister and ecumenist . It should be a good evening and the remaining days of the week are equally crowded'. Throughout his life he was an avid reader, indeed collector of books. One of his most treasured acquisitions was a first edition of Charles Wesley's Hymns for the use of Families and on Various Occasions. In 1957 he moved to St John Street where he became superintendent minister of the Grosvenor Park Methodist
ROBERTSON, HENRY (1816 - 1888), civil engineer and railway pioneer Wales Mineral Railway - the first of many measures which he was destined to pilot through Parliament; David Davies of Llan-dinam (1818 - 1890) said Robertson was the best parliamentary witness of his day. Leaving the Brymbo iron-works and pits to the care of W. H. and Charles Darby, Robertson concentrated on building the railways, chiefly with Thomas Brassey as contractor. Robertson was the engineer
ROBINSON family Conway, Monachdy, Gwersyllt, for North Wales, and married a Norris of Speke, the parent stock of his house. In Parliament he supported the Court, from which, according to official figures, he was drawing £200 a year in secret service money in 1679. As a militia colonel he was active in harrying the Dissenters and Quakers of Denbighshire. He died on 22 March 1681, and was buried at Gresford, his epitaphs there are in Pennant
ROOS, WILLIAM (1808 - 1878), portrait painter and engraver The son of Thomas and Mary Roose, Bodgadfa, Amlwch, he was christened at Amlwch 30 April 1808. His paintings of 'The Death of Owen Glyndwr' and 'The Death of Captan [sic] Wynn at Alma' were awarded second place at the national eisteddfod held at Llangollen in 1858. He was a popular portrait painter and the N.L.W. holds his portraits in oils of Christmas Evans, John Cox, Thomas Charles, John Jones
ROWLANDS, GRIFFITH (1761 - 1828), surgeon of anaesthetic. Under his treatment, the left thumb of Thomas Charles of Bala was amputated in 1799. The thumb had frozen as Thomas Charles travelled on a frosty night over the Migneint mountains between the counties of Caernarfon and Merioneth. With Rowlands's help also, a stone weighing two and a quarter ounces was removed from the gall bladder of Thomas Jones of Denbigh (1756 - 1820) in 1802
ROWLANDS, JANE HELEN (Helen o Fôn; 1891 - 1955), linguist, teacher and missionary (with the CM) Menai Bridge, Thomas Charles Williams, rested heavily upon Helen. She attended all the services and won prizes in the county scriptural examination. From Beaumaris grammar school she won a scholarship to the University College of North Wales and registered there in October 1908. Dr. Kate Roberts, her contemporary, refered to her 'unusual ability'. She won a second-class honours degree in French in
SALUSBURY, Sir CHARLES JOHN (1792 - 1868), cleric and antiquary

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