Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, GLYN (1904 - 1962), historian and administrator and, in great measure, this accounted for his success as a teacher and administrator. He understood the motives of his fellow man better than most and detested over-respectability and affectation. Full of humour and a lover of amusing tales and ready witticisms he was fundamentally a likeable, gracious and kindly man. Married twice (1): Mary Davida Alwynne Hughes on 6 September 1933, and after her
ROBERTS, GORONWY OWEN (Baron Goronwy-Roberts), (1913 - 1981), Labour politician he who was responsible for presenting the final petition, bearing more than 250,000 signatures, to parliament in May 1956. He was acutely unnerved by the outcome of the devolution referendum of 1 March 1979. It was his thankless fate to serve as a minister during a period of rift within the Labour Party and in the fortunes of Wales. As a minister he was efficient, but some considered him to lack
ROBERTS, GWYNETH PARUL (1910 - 2007), doctor and missionary Gwyneth Roberts was born on 1 November 1910 in Sylhet, India, the second child of the Reverend John William Roberts (1880-1969), a member of a Liverpool Welsh family and Ethel Griffith Roberts (née Jones, 1879-1972), born in Manchester. Her parents had gone as missionaries to Sylhet in 1907, and were based there for almost forty years. They had three children: the first died in childhood, and a
ROBERTS, JOHN (Jack Russia; 1899 - 1979), miner, councillor and a prominent member of the Welsh Communist Party Born 1 May 1899 in Penrhyndeudraeth, Meirionethshire, the son of John Roberts, a miner and Mary Jones, daughter of a blacksmith from Harlech. He was brought up by his grandparents in Penrhyndeudraeth and received his education in the local schools. When he left in 1913 his grandmother Sarah Jones arranged for him to travel to his parents' home in Abertridwr, where he found work at the Windsor
ROBERTS, JOHN HERBERT (BARON CLWYD of ABERGELE), (1863 - 1955), politician on voluntary hospitals in Wales. He was created a baronet in 1908 and elevated Baron Clwyd of Abergele in 1919. He journeyed regularly from Abergele to the House of Lords until he was over ninety years old. He did great service in public life of which the public was largely unaware. He married in Clapham chapel (Congl.), on 1 August 1893, Hanna Rushton, daughter of William Sproston Caine, M.P. who
ROBERTS, JOHN IORWERTH (1902 - 1970), schoolmaster and secretary of Llangollen International Eisteddfod history. He held classes on the topic for the Workers' Educational Association, and his lecture on the 1858 Llangollen eisteddfod to the Denbighshire History Society was published in the Society's journal in 1959. He married (1) Dilys Alwen Jones (died 11 July 1965) in Rehoboth chapel, Llangollen, in August 1934 and they had one daughter; and married (2) Dilys Jones of Llangollen in King Street
ROBERTS, PETER (1760 - 1819), cleric, Biblical scholar and antiquary Born in 1760 at Tai'n-y-nant, Ruabon, Denbighshire. His father, JOHN ROBERTS, son of a freeholder at Ruabon, attained considerable fame as a clock-maker;. his name appears in the list of subscribers to Dewisol Ganiadau, published in 1759 by Huw Jones of Llangwm. John Roberts lived at Wrexham from 1764 till after 1771 and made a clock for Izaak Walton (Peate, Clock and Watch Makers of Wales, 60-1
ROBERTS, RICHARD (1823 - 1909), Wesleyan minister Hampstead, London, where he died 28 November 1909. He married (1) S. Sophia Neville Broom of Llanelly, by whom he had children, and (2) Hannah Elsworth of London. Roberts was, above all, a fluent and vehement preacher, and was regarded as one of the most popular pulpit orators of his time. Throughout his working life his services were constantly in demand at all the great festivals of his church, and he
ROBERTS, RICHARD (1874 - 1945), preacher, theologian and author University of Vermont, U.S.A. In 1937 he received the same degree honoris causa from the University of Wales. He also received the degree of D. Litt. from the Univesity of Syracuse, U.S.A. As an author he contributed articles to Cymru, The Hibbert Journal and published many books among which are the following: Robert Owen, part 1, 1907; part II, 1910 (part of a prize essay at the Liverpool national
ROBERTS, ROBERT (Bob Tai'r Felin; 1870 - 1951), folk singer Born 1 September 1870 at Tai'r Felin, Cwmtirmynach, Bala, Merionethshire, son of Cadwaladr and Betsi Roberts (née Rowlands, of Cae Gwernog, Capel Celyn). He followed his father as miller and farmer. He married Elizabeth Jane Roberts of nearby Fron-goch farm. They had three children, Cadwaladr, Harriet and Morris. At Cwmtirmynach Presbyterian chapel he was precentor for nearly 50 years, Sunday
ROBERTS, ROBERT HENRY (1838 - 1900), Baptist minister and principal of Regent's Park College, London theological tutor at Regent's Park College from 1891 till his retirement in 1896. He died at Folkestone, 16 April 1900. He was elected president of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1892. He published (1) Prayer and Contemporary Criticism, Five Sermons, 1873, which he dedicated to the members of Cornwall Road church; (2) The Witness of the Bible …, 1892 - his presidential address to the
ROBERTS, SAMUEL (S.R.; 1800 - 1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer rigorous Independent, and he viewed with alarm the projected Union of Welsh Independents in 1872. On the same plea, that the freedom of the individual was imperilled, he was opposed to trade unionism in industry. In 1843 he commenced Y Cronicl, a 1½d. monthly periodical which proved immediately popular. He himself claimed that over a million copies were sold in twelve years. With this organ, 'S.R

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