Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, ELLIS (Eos Llyfnwy, Robin Ddu Eifionydd; 1827 - 1895) , 238, gives the titles of three odes written by Robin Ddu, viz. 'Llesoldeb Gwybodaeth,' 1799, 'Dedwyddwch,' 1802, and 'Rhagluniaeth,' 1803. The date of his death is unknown, but he published a book (above) in 1816. He was buried in the Particular Baptists' burial ground at Garn Dolbenmaen. Besides Eos Llyfnwy he had another son, ROBERT MORRIS, a preacher who was responsible in part for the starting
ROBERTS, LEWIS (Eos Twrog; 1756 - 1844), musician and weaver
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1840 - 1871), musician Born 24 May 1840 at Tanysgafell, Bethesda, Caernarfonshire. He was 12 when his father died and he began to work in a quarry. He was taught the rudiments of music by Owen Humphrey Davies (Eos Llechid). Henry Samuel Hayden then gave him some instruction and the boy was admitted, when he was 14, to the training college at Caernarvon where Hayden taught; he afterwards followed Hayden in his post. In
ROBERTS, THOMAS ROWLAND (Asaph; 1857? - 1940), biographer , 16 June 1940, aged 83, and was buried in Bron-y-nant cemetery. He was the author of the following biographical works: Edmund Prys, 1899; Y Monwyson, 1902; Eminent Welshmen, 1908, a biographical dictionary for the period 1700-1900; and Huw Morus (Eos Ceiriog), 1910. His Edmwnd Prys includes a convenient collection of Prys's poetry, and his Eminent Welshmen, with its ample apparatus of reference, has
SAMUEL, EDWARD (1674 - 1748), cleric, poet, and author examples see (a) Blodeu-gerdd Cymry, 1759; (b) Llu o Ganiadau, neu Gasgliad o Garolau a Cherddi … o Gasgliad W. Jones, Bettws Gwerfil Goch (Oswestry, 1798); (c) Eos Ceiriog, 1823; and (d) B.M. Add. MS. 14961. Sermons by him were published (Pregeth ynghylch gofalon bydol a bregethwyd yn Eglwys Llangywer, yr ail dydd o fis Mai, 1720. Ar gladdedigaeth Mr. Robert Wynne, diweddar Vicar Gwyddelwern, 1731 and
THOMAS, JOHN (Eos Gwynedd; 1742 - 1818), poet the title of Eos Gwynedd. He wrote carols and hymns. He had a bardic controversy with Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) on the subject of baptism. He died 12 September 1818.
VAUGHAN, ROWLAND (c.1590 - 1667) Caer-gai,, poet, translator, and Royalist Practice of Piety. In the article on ' Phylipiaid Ardudwy ' in Cymm., xlii, is quoted the account given by Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) in the introduction to Eos Ceiriog (1823) of the friendship in the time of the Civil War between Rowland Vaughan and William Phylip, who lived at Hendre Fechan, Ardudwy. When Griffith Vaughan, brother of Rowland Vaughan, died 1638, William Phylip wrote two elegies
WILLIAMS, FOULK ROBERT (Eos Llyfnwy; 1774 - 1870), musician gentleman. For many years he visited certain districts in Anglesey and Caernarvonshire to teach congregational singing. The National Library of Wales has a 1,158-page manuscript called ' Llyfr Cerddoriaeth o Gerddi Sion …, compiled c. 1834 by Foulk Roberts; this manuscript contains anthems, hymn-tunes, carols, old airs, etc., the compiler and collector being designated as 'Foulk Roberts (Eos Llyfnwy
WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ioan Rhagfyr; 1740 - 1821), musician ). In Foulk Robert Williams (Eos Llyfnwy), ' Cerddoriaeth o Gerddi Seion ' (in manuscript form in N.L.W.) are preserved fifty-nine hymn-tunes and twenty-one anthems by him. He died 11 March 1821, and was buried in Dolgelley parish churchyard.
WILLIAMS, ROBERT JOHN (PRYSOR; 1891 - 1967), collier and actor Born 13 April 1891 at Trawsfynydd, Meironnydd. His father, Ellis, was a carpenter and died young; his mother, Eliza, daughter of ' Eos Prysor ', raised him and his sister with the scant assistance of the Board of Guardians. He was educated at Trawsfynydd British School but he left when he was ten years old to earn his living as a farm-worker. When his mother re-married the family moved to the
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Eos Gwynfa, Eos y Mynydd; c. 1769 - 1848), poet
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Caledfryn; 1801 - 1869), Congregational minister, poet, and critic Caledfryn (a further volume of verse), 1856. He edited Gardd Eifion, the works of Robert ap Gwilym Ddu in 1841, and Eos Gwynedd, the works of John Thomas, Pentrefoelas (1742-1818), in 1845, and a collection of hymns in 1860. He contributed essays on Robert ap Gwilym Ddu and Dewi Wyn o Eifion to Y Drysorfa in 1852 and 1853. He edited many periodicals, including Y Sylwedydd, (1831), Tywysog Cymru (1832-3

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