Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, ROBERT (1777 - 1836), almanack-maker and printer Born in 1777, son of John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) whom he succeeded as the publisher and compiler of the popular Holyhead almanacks known as Cyfaill Glandeg, Cyfaill Taeredd, etc., for the years 1805 to 1837. These almanacks were printed by John Jones of Trefriw under a fictitious Dublin imprint in order to avoid Government tax. He also published Eurgrawn Môn, neu y Drysorfa Hanesyddol, 1825
ROBERTS, WILLIAM HENRY (1907 - 1982), actor, broadcaster with the white robe by the gorsedd of bards in Caernarfon in 1959. He published his reminiscences (with a photograph), Aroglau gwair, in 1981; his lecture, with casette, 'Iaith lafar Mon' was published in 1984. He married Margaret Elisabeth Evans of Newbrorough in August 1937 and they had two sons. He died at his home in Dwyran, Anglesey 6 April 1982 and he was buried in Ebeneser chapel cemetery
ROBIN DDU (fl. c. 1450), poet elegy on the death of the seven children of Gruffudd ap Rhys ap Maredudd of Gloddaeth, and his poem addressed to the ship that took him on pilgrimage to Rome in 1450. An elegy on his death was composed by Ifan Môn, one of his disciples.
ROBINSON family Conway, Monachdy, Gwersyllt, lieutenant-colonel in the royal forces at home, defending Holt castle, Denbighshire, against the Roundheads in November 1643, commanding a company at Rowton Heath (24 September 1645) and signing the articles of capitulation for Chester the following February, then helping in the defence of Anglesey, where, after seizing the coastal fort of Lleiniog (Pen-mon), he had once more to sign terms of surrender. He
ROWLAND, JOHN (fl. 1760-1764), printer the year 1741 in his Cambrian Bibliography William Rowlands records Ym Ddiddan rhwng Rhobin Criwso a Bardd y Cwsg amy blynyddau dros byth, and adds that it was a kind of almanack for the year 1741. He also quotes part of a line from a stanza - 'A'i brintio ym Môn ' ('printed in Anglesey') which suggested to him (Rowlands) that the work had been printed at the Bodedern Press. The printing is so badly
ROWLANDS, DAVID (Dewi Môn; 1836 - 1907), Congregational minister and college principal and, in 1897, principal, a post which he held until his death on 7 January 1907. Dewi Môn was a zealous supporter of educational, social, national, and religious movements and institutions. During the time when he was an assistant tutor at Bala he lectured and wrote much on behalf of the project to found a Welsh colony in Patagonia in the Argentine. He often adjudicated at national eisteddfodau. He
ROWLANDS, EURYS IONOR (1926 - 2006), Welsh scholar clerk for three years. He returned to Bangor in 1948 and graduated with first-class honours in Welsh in 1950 and gained his M.A. in 1955 for a dissertation on the work of the poet Lewys Môn. He was appointed Welsh teacher at Holyhead comprehensive school in 1953 but towards the end of 1956 he was appointed a lecturer in the Celtic Department at Glasgow University. In 1958 he was appointed lecturer in
THOMAS, EBENEZER (Eben Fardd; 1802 - 1863), schoolmaster and poet , 'Maes Bosworth.' He was a competitor also at Caernarvon in 1862 on the subject 'Y Flwyddyn,' but was beaten by Hwfa Môn. He died 17 February 1863, and was buried at Clynnog. His wife, his son, and two of his daughters had predeceased him. Eben Fardd was regarded in his day as one of Wales's foremost poets, and it is fair to say that he was endowed with more of the true poetic sensibility than was any
TUDUR ALED (fl. 1480-1526), poet control over, the poets and their craft.' It was at that eisteddfod that he was made a bard or 'chaired' teacher. In the elegy he wrote for Tudur Aled, Lewis Mon has a couplet: ' Dug ar i wn, fel dau grair, Diwedd gwawd, y ddwy gadair ' (op. cit., II. 734), which was taken to mean that Tudur Aled was made a master musician as well as a master poet (op. cit., I, xxxviii). One of Tudur Aled's patrons was
VAUGHAN family Corsygedol, Phylip (died 1666), who was bardd teulu at Corysgedol, wrote about nineteen, whilst another son, Phylip Siôn Phylip (died c. 1677), wrote one. William Phylip (died February 1670), who lived at Hendre-fechan, close to Corsygedol, helped Siôn Bryncir to write a cyngor to William Vaughan, nephew of Siôn Bryncir. One poem by Gruffydd Phylip has an interesting title - ' I Wmffre Davies o Landy-frydogy Mon
WILLIAMS, CHRISTOPHER DAVID (1873 - 1934), artist the Investiture of the prince of Wales at Caernarvon in 1911 and ' The Charge of the Welsh Division at Mametz Wood ' in 1916. Among his portraits are those of Sir John Williams, Sir Henry Jones, Sir John Rhys, David Lloyd George (later 1st earl Dwyfor), Sir John Morris-Jones, and Hwfa Mon. Several of his pictures were shown at the Royal Academy exhibitions and his work is represented in the
WILLIAMS, DAVID (Iwan; 1796 - 1823), Baptist minister them to seek refuge in Swansea. Joseph Harris (Gomer) gave the family shelter and kept Williams to preach to English congregations at Swansea and to instruct his son John in the classics. He died 10 January 1823. ' P. A. Môn ' composed an elegiac awdl, and Caledfryn elegiac englynion in his memory.

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