Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERT, GRUFFYDD (c.1522 - c.1610), priest, grammarian, and poet a divinity canon in the cathedral. There are references to him in the cardinal's biography and details are given in letters written by his friend, Owen Lewis, now in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, of the duties which he performed. About November 1582 Borromeo wanted him to relinquish his position as divinity canon because he could not speak Italian sufficiently fluently. We do not know what
ROBERTS, CARADOG (1878 - 1935), musician on the piano and the organ by Dan C. Owen, Rhosllanerchrugog, Norton Bailey, Dr. J. C. Bridge (organist of Chester cathedral), and Herr Johannes Weingartner. In 1894 he was appointed organist of Mynydd Seion Congregational church, Ponciau, near Wrexham, a post which he held for nine years. He became A.R.C.O. in 1899, F.R.C.O. in 1900, A.R.C.M. in 1901, L.R.A.M. in 1902, and Mus. Bac. (Oxon.) in
ROBERTS, DAVID (Dewi Ogwen; 1818 - 1897), Independent minister Born 19 April 1818 at Bangor, son of the Rev. Dafydd Roberts, a Calvinistic Methodist preacher and superintendent of one of Charles of Bala's schools; his mother was of the same lineage as John Jones of Tal-y-sarn and Cadwaladr Owen of Dolwyddelan. He was first educated in a private school in the town and later in Dr. Arthur Jones's school. In 1833 he was apprenticed as a printer in the office of
ROBERTS, DAVID OWEN (1888 - 1958), educationalist
ROBERTS, ELEAZAR (1825 - 1912), musician Born 15 January 1825, at Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire, the son of John and Margaret Roberts, who moved to Liverpool two months after he was born. After attending the Owen Brown school, Rose Place, and the Liverpool Institute, he started to work when he was 13 in a solicitor's office. In 1853 he became a member of the staff in the office of the clerk to the Liverpool magistrates and, in course of
ROBERTS, ELIS (d. 1789), cooper, ballad-writer, and composer of interludes derogatory remarks made about him by Goronwy Owen (in his letters) are well known; see also Morris Letters, i, 330.
ROBERTS, EMRYS OWEN (1910 - 1990), Liberal politician and public servant He was born at Caernarfon on 22 September 1910, the son of Owen Owens Roberts and Mary Grace Williams, both natives of Caernarfon. He was educated at Caernarfon Grammar School, the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1st class honours in law in 1931 and the Sir Samuel T. Evans Prize) and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1st class honours in both Part I and Part II of the Law Tripos
ROBERTS, EVELYN BEATRICE (Lynette) (1909 - 1995), poet and prose writer Welsh Regional Service in 1952, and the radio ballad 'El Dorado' followed on the Third Programme in 1953. Her last major published work, The Endeavour, a historical novel about Captain Cook's first voyage, was published in 1954 by Peter Owen, by which time Roberts was living in Chislehurst. In Chislehurst in 1955-56 Lynette developed the idea of setting up a gallery in some nearby caves. The sculptor
ROBERTS, GORONWY OWEN (Baron Goronwy-Roberts), (1913 - 1981), Labour politician College of Swansea, 1944-45. He broadcast regularly on literary and political subjects. He was elected the Labour MP for Caernarfonshire in the general election of July 1945 when he defeated the sitting Liberal MP Sir Goronwy Owen who had held the seat since 1923. He was re-elected for the Caernarfon division of Caernarfonshire in the general election of February 1950 when he defeated the Liberal
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1912 - 1969), priest and poet Owen Morris and Elisabeth Williams, Morfa Nefyn, and they had two daughters. He died 13 February 1969, and was buried at Abergwyngregin on the banks of the Menai Straits, as he had wished.
ROBERTS, GWILYM OWEN (1909 - 1987), author, lecturer, minister and psychologist Gwilym O. Roberts (in error, a full middle name was not registered on his birth certificate though his university records have Owen), was born 22 July 1909 in Cerniog, Pistyll, son to William Owen Roberts, a farmer and well known lay preacher, and his wife Mary Elisabeth Roberts, a seamstress. He received his education at Pwllheli County School and then went on to Aberystwyth University in 1929
ROBERTS, IOAN (1941 - 2019), journalist, producer and author to realize that he was no engineer, but a man of words. He decided to apply for a job as a journalist with Y Cymro, and even though he had no formal qualifications the editor, D. Llion Griffiths, had no doubt that he was the man for the job. Gwilym Owen noticed Ioan Roberts's capabilities as a journalist and appointed him as an editor on the HTV news programme Y Dydd in 1977. When S4C was

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