Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, JOHN (1842 - 1908), Calvinistic Methodist missionary Born 16 February 1842 at Gwyngyll, Upper Corris, Meironnydd, son of Richard Roberts, stonemason (member of a family called Ffowc, farmers of Plas Meifod, Henllan, Denbighshire) and his wife Jane, of Egryn, Dyffryn Ardudwy. On the death of his father John went, at the age of 11, to work in the quarry, but he had already secretly resolved to be a missionary : he saved up to buy books, hiding them
ROBERTS, JOHN (Ieuan Gwyllt; 1822 - 1877), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and musician went to Aberdare to edit Y Gwladgarwr, and, the next year, he married Jane Richards, Aberystwyth. Ieuan Gwyllt began to compose music when he was quite young; a hymn-tune by him, 'Hafilah,' was published in November 1839 in Yr Athraw. In 1852 he published Blodau Cerdd which contained lessons in music together with hymn-tunes which, like 'Hafilah,' were imitations of the poorer kind of English hymn
ROBERTS, JOHN (1807 - 1876), musician Born 30 March 1807 at Henllan, near Denbigh; the son of Aaron and Jane Roberts. He attended the village school until he was 13 and, two years later, began to receive instruction from Thomas Jones, Congregational minister, Denbigh. He was taught music by Thomas Daniel, Henllan; he also studied books on music. He collected a large number of hymn-tunes that were used at times of religious revival or
ROBERTS, JOHN JOHN (Iolo Caernarfon; 1840 - 1914), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and prose-writer 1873 he became pastor at Trefriw, was ordained in 1874, and in the same year married Ann Williams (1846 - 1910) of Castellgoed in Eifionydd. In 1879 he was called to Tabernacle Calvinistic Methodist church at Portmadoc, and remained there till his retirement in 1909. He died 5 November 1914, aged 74. He had been moderator of the Calvinistic Methodist General Assembly in 1900, moderator of the North
ROBERTS, KATE (1891 - 1985), author , Mary, Jane, and Owen) and three younger brothers, Richard (Dic), Evan, and David (Dei). From 1895 onwards the family lived in Cae'r Gors, a smallholding, where they practised subsistence farming to bolster the family income. Cae'r Gors was Kate's home for most of her early years, and she conveys a vivid sense of the cottage and its surrounding four fields in her 1961 autobiography, Y Lôn Wen (The
ROBERTS, OWEN MADOC (1867 - 1948), minister (Meth.) was highly respected. He married Margaret Jane Williams (died 29 May 1939) of Caernarfon, and they had two daughters and a son. He died 25 October 1948, 81 years old, and was buried in Llanbeblig churchyard, Caernarfon.
ROBERTS, PETER (fl. 1578-1646), attorney and chronicler Born 2 February 1577/1578, son of Robert ap Hywel ap Rhys, of Bron-yr-wylfa, near S. Asaph, and his wife Agnes - a Griffith of Gwern-eigron; he probably went to S. Asaph cathedral school. By 1599 he was notary public at S. Asaph, and in 1624 (30 June) he was appointed proctor in the bishop's court. In 1606 he married Jane, one of the daughters of David ap Lewis ap Gronw, of Meiriadog; and he
ROBERTS, RICHARD (1769 - 1855), harpist , Caernarfonshire. He became blind at the age of 8, following an attack of smallpox. Taught to play the harp by the famous harpist William Williams ('Wil Penmorfa'), he became one of the most accomplished players on the triple harp in his period. He won the silver harp offered at the Wrexham eisteddfod of 1820, and the gold harp at the Denbigh eisteddfod of 1828. He adjudicated much - e.g. at the Abergavenny
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 ALUN (1894 - 1969), Professor of Agricultural Botany at University College, Bangor, and a naturalist Born 10 March 1894, at Glan Gors, Tan'rallt, Dyffryn Nantlle, Caernarfonshire, son of Robert Roberts (brother of Owen Roberts, father of Dr. Kate Roberts) and Jane Thomas. He received his primary education at Nebo school and won a scholarship to Pen-y-groes county school. For a period, he was a pupil teacher before securing a place in University College, Bangor in 1911. He was awarded a B.Sc
ROBERTS, IEUAN WYN PRITCHARD (1930 - 2013), journalist and politician on programmes such as Camau Cyntaf and Croeso Christine. TWW, however, lost its license to Harlech (HTV) in 1968, and Roberts's distaste for the switch led him to pursue an alternative career in politics. He married Enid Grace Williams in 1956, and they had three sons, Geraint, Rhys (d. 2004) and Huw. In 1970 Roberts was elected MP for the seat of Conwy under the Conservative Party, a choice which
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1835 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at the Green, near Denbigh, 19 August 1835, son of John and Jane Powel Roberts. For a short time he attended the school kept by Jonah Lloyd, an Independent preacher; after which he went for a year as a farmer's boy to his uncle at Tŷ-draw, near Mold. After that, he went to the British School at Denbigh where Macaulay, the schoolmaster, was kind to him. He served his apprenticeship in the

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