Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, EDWARD (1816 - 1887), Congregational minister Born 7 February 1816 in Brithdir, near Dolgelley, Meironnydd. After he had received some education in local schools he was apprenticed as a carpenter, and afterwards followed that 'occupation in Llanbryn-mair and Manchester; at the latter place he came under the influence of some of the Welsh societies of the town. He returned to Brithdir in 1838 and started to preach soon afterwards. He went to
ROBERTS, GEORGE (1769 - 1853), settler and Independent minister in U.S.A. connections, and a long account of his early religious experiences. Up to the age of 17, he remained at the loom with his father, but afterwards served on farms at Carno and Llanbryn-mair. In May 1795 he married Jane Edwards, of Llanerfyl, and in July, in company with Ezekiel Hughes and others, emigrated to America - their troubles with press-gangs and with storms at sea are recounted in the autobiography
ROBERTS, GOMER MORGAN (1904 - 1993), minister (CM), historian, author and hymnwriter . Two of his hymns have been included in Caneuon Ffydd (2001). He was also a member of the Court and Council of the National Library of Wales. He was awarded an honorary M.A., 1949, and D.Litt., 1985, by the University of Wales. Of medium height and sturdy build, he enjoyed good health until the last few years of his life, when he received every care from his wife and daughter, Mair. An entertaining
ROBERTS, JOHN (1767 - 1834), Independent minister and theologian Born 25 February 1767 at Bron-y-llan, Mochdre, Montgomeryshire. His parents were Evan and Mary Roberts (see under George Roberts), members of the Independent congregation at Llanbryn-mair who attended a branch chapel at Aberhafesp. When he was 18 years of age he went to live with his elder sister at Llanbryn-mair, where he became a member of the church October 1786. In January 1790 he began to
ROBERTS, JOHN (J.R.; 1804 - 1884), Independent minister and author Born in the Old Chapel chapel-house, Llanbryn-mair, 5 November 1804, second son of John Roberts (1767 - 1834). In 1806 the family went to live at Diosg farm close by, and he spent some time working on the land. He was nearly 25 years of age before he started to preach. In March 1831 he was admitted to the Academy at Newtown, which at that time was in charge of Edward Davies (1796 - 1857), a Tory
ROBERTS, MORRIS (1799 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and later Independent minister Methodist preacher. In 1824 he went to live at Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, where he rented a small farm and continued to preach regularly. While there, he got into trouble because of his opinions in regard to ' certain matters relating to the teachings of the Gospel.' He was accused of leaning towards the 'New System' in doctrinal matters and of following John Roberts of Llanbryn-mair (1767 - 1834) and
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, SAMUEL (S.R.; 1800 - 1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer Born 6 March 1800, eldest son of John and Mary Roberts (née Breese), of Llanbryn-mair, where his father John Roberts (1767 - 1834) was Independent minister, 1794-1834. He received his early education at the local school kept by his father, and at Shrewsbury, 1810-12. It is claimed that he was one of the earliest in Wales to master shorthand. In 1819 he entered the Academy at Llanfyllin, soon to
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Eryri; 1844 - 1895?), poet and editor in the 1880s a volume of the works of Mary Davies (1846 - 1882), the Portmadoc poetess, under the title Blodeu Eifion, sef Gwaith Barddonol Mair Eifion. Three of his own poems, which he had submitted in the competition for the chair at the national eisteddfod in 1884, 1887, and 1894 respectively, were published, viz., Awdl ar Gwilym Hiraethog, 1884; Y Frenhines Victoria, 1887; and Hunan Aberth
ROWLAND, Sir JOHN (1877 - 1941), civil servant of his private secretaries from 1905 to 1912 he was appointed a member of the Welsh Insurance Commission in 1911. He became Chairman of the Welsh Board of Health in 1930, retiring in 1940. He died on 2 January 1941, in Cardiff, and was buried there. Rowland married, 1902, Mair, daughter of David Lewis of Llanafan, Cardiganshire; they had three sons. He received the M.V.O. in 1911, C.B.E. in 1918
RUCK, AMY ROBERTA (1878 - 1978), novelist Merioneth, and also had a house in Aberdyfi. Her mother, who came from Llanbryn-mair, traced her family back to the fifteenth-century poet Dafydd Llwyd o Fathafarn and to John Jones of Maes-y-garnedd, Merioneth, in the seventeenth century. In 1886, after a brief period serving with the Liverpool Volunteers, Colonel Ruck was appointed Chief Constable of Caernarfonshire and the family moved to Llwyn-y-brain
SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), evangelist and author David's). Their two daughters, Mair and Olwen, were born there in 1901 and 1903. In 1908 a permanent women's refuge was established for the Forward Movement in Cardiff. 'Mainly through the efforts of some of the women of our Movement, led by Mrs J. M. Saunders', says the Monthly Treasury, 'we decided to purchase more commodious premises at Kingswood, Canton, where we might carry on Rescue as well as

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