Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, RICHARD (Gruffydd Rhisiart; 1810 - 1883), writer and Independent preacher Born 5 November 1809 at Diosg, Llanbryn-mair, youngest son of John Roberts (1767 - 1834). He was educated at the school kept by his father, was brought up to be a farmer, and had the chief responsibility for the smallholding, but like his brothers, 'S.R.' and 'J.R.,' he was keenly interested in writing. The periodicals of the time, especially Y Cronicl (which was edited by his brothers), abound
ROBERTS, ROBERT (SILYN) (Rhosyr; 1871 - 1930), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, social reformer, tutor Born at Bryn Llidiart, Llanllyfni, 28 March 1871. Starting as a slate quarryman, he was educated at Bangor University College (B.A. 1899, M.A. 1901) and at Bala Theological College. He became minister of Lewisham (Welsh) Calvinistic Methodist church, 1901-5, and Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1905-12. He was crown bard at the national eisteddfod, 1902, for a poem on ' Trystan and Esyllt.' He
ROBERTS, ROBERT DAVIES (1851 - 1911), pioneer in adult education and scientist Born 5 March 1851, at Aberystwyth, eldest son of Richard Davies Roberts, timber merchant, and Sara Davies. Educated locally and at Oswestry, the Liverpool Institute, University College, London (B.Sc., 1st class in geology, 1870, D.Sc., 1878), Clare College, Cambridge (2nd class natural sciences tripos., 1875), he was (1876-7) temporary lecturer at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
ROBERTS, SAMUEL (S.R.; 1800 - 1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer Bible Society. He was also a keen temperance advocate. In 1834-5 he was secretary of the movement to clear the debts of the North Wales Independent chapels. In 1839 he was engaged in a celebrated debate with Dr. Lewis Edwards, of Bala, concerning church government; he argued for the freedom of the individual congregation as against the centralization of authority. 'S.R.' remained all his days a
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1765-6 - 1841) Llwyn'rhudol, pamphleteer mother's death in March 1829 (she was buried on 5 April in Bunhill Fields) leaving one daughter, Keturah, still alive. She was a perfumer, in business at 7, Bond Street, and it was there that her father died. He was buried on 30 May 1841 in Bunhill Fields. Thomas Roberts became a member of the Gwyneddigion Society in 1793, was elected vice-president in 1799, president in 1800, and treasurer in 1801. He
ROBESON, PAUL LEROY (1898 - 1976), actor, singer and political activist of Stalinist Russia. During the McCarthyite era efforts to 'contain' him included retroactively removing mention of his participating in American college football and being an All-American, confiscating his passport, and making it increasingly difficult to procur any of Robeson's artistic works domestically. In 1954-5, with the encouragement of the politican Aneurin Bevan, Robeson recorded a number
RODERICK, DAVID (1746 - 1830), cleric and schoolmaster Born in 1746 at Llandeilo-fawr, Carmarthenshire, son of Thomas Roderick of Llangathen; a brother of his was, in 1794, prominent in the affairs of the collieries and the harbour at Llanelly (A History of Carmarthenshire, ii, 344-5, 390). David Roderick went up in 1764 to Queen's College, Oxford, graduating in 1767. He became an assistant master at Harrow School, and the only noteworthy fact about
ROWLAND, THOMAS (1824 - 1884), cleric and grammarian Born in Llanfor parish, Meironnydd, 5 June 1824, son of a workman on the Rhiwlas estate. His promise attracted the notice of Cleaver, the sinecure rector of the parish, who took him away from the shop at Bala in which he was serving, and sent him to John Williams, vicar of Rhos-y-gwaliau, to be educated for school-teaching. But after a short period at Chelsea Training College, Rowland showed a
ROWLANDS, Sir HUGH (1828 - 1909), general, and the first Welshman to be awarded the Victoria Cross action at the Battle of the Alma but it was at Inkerman on 5 November that his name first came to prominence. For his action during that battle, in which he was severely wounded in the arm, he was later awarded the Victoria Cross, the first Welshman to be so decorated. He served throughout the siege of Sebastopol and took part in both attacks on the Redan. During the first attack he was again nominated
SALISBURY, THOMAS (1567? - 1620), publisher translator of the (incomplete) Rhann o Psalmae …, during the plague sickness of 1603, and adds that the printing of the Basilikon was not completed. William Middleton's Psalmae is dedicated to Sir Thomas Myddelton, kinsman of the translator and patron of the publisher. As has been shown by E. D. Jones (N.L.W. Jnl., i, 52-3), Sir Thomas Myddelton, on 5 January 1593/4, advanced £10 to ' Thomas Salisbury
SALUSBURY family Lleweni, Bachygraig, latter's eldest surviving son, JOHN SALUSBURY, was made a Knight of the Carpet by Edward VI at his coronation, and married Jane, daughter of David Myddleton of Chester (a member of the Gwenynog family); he was sheriff of Denbighshire in 1542 and in 1575, chamberlain of North Wales, and Member of Parliament for his county 1547-52, in 1553, 1554, and in 1554-5. In the dispute between the earl of Leicester
SAMUEL, HOWEL WALTER (1881 - 1953), judge and politician objectors' tribunal for some years. He was exceptionally competent and courageous, and had a great gift of friendship with people in all walks of life. His wife died in Swansea, 19 August 1939, and he married (2) in Llandrindod Wells, 24 April 1941, Lady Annie Gwladys, widow of Sir Henry Gregg and daughter of David Morlais Samuel, Swansea. As 'Morlaisa' she was a member of the Gorsedd. He died 5 April

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