Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, EVAN JOHN (Y Diwygiwr, the Revivalist; 1878 - 1951), revivalist preacher , following a series of conferences, similar to the Keswick conferences, which had been arranged by Joseph Jenkins (1859 - 1929) and others to deepen the spiritual life of the churches. Evan Roberts had an experience that shook him to the core at one of these conferences (at Blaenannerch), and he was induced to return to Loughor to hold a mission before the end of October. Agitated meetings were held in the
ROBERTS, Sir GABRIEL (c.1629), Aleppo merchant - see ROBERTS, LEWIS
ROBERTS, Sir GEORGE FOSSETT (1870 - 1954), soldier, politician and administrator
ROBERTS, GOMER MORGAN (1904 - 1993), minister (CM), historian, author and hymnwriter funeral. He maried at Bethany, Ammanford, 23 September 1930, Gwladys Jones, second daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Jones, Pantyffynnon. Gomer Roberts died 16 March 1993, aged 89, and was buried at Llandybïe.
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, HUGH GORDON (1885 - 1961), surgeon and missionary One of the sons of David Roberts of Dolenog, Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, and his wife Jane Sarah, daughter of Thomas Price Jones of Liverpool. He was born 16 July 1885 in Liverpool and was reared there. He was a great-grandson of David Roberts (1788 - 1869), a doctor in Bodedern, Anglesey, and Sir William Roberts, F.R.S. (1830 - 1899), who was a prominent doctor in Manchester and London, was his
ROBERTS, JOHN ASKEW (1826 - 1884), antiquary, journalist, and author collaborated in bringing out the 1878 edition of Sir John Wynn's The history of the Gwydir family. He also published Contributions to Oswestry History, 1881; Wynnstay and the Wynns, 1876; and, a work which had a very large circulation - The Gossiping Guide to Wales. He also made contributions to the publications of the Shropshire Archaeological Society and the Powysland Club. Besides the Advertiser, Roberts
ROBERTS, JOHN PRICE (1854 - 1905), Wesleyan minister and author to Yr Eurgrawn, and something of a poet - his elegy on Joseph Thomas won esteem. He published (1903) a (Welsh) biography of Hugh Price Hughes, and was one of the authors of the biography of John Evans (1840 - 1897) of Eglwys-bach.
ROBERTS, LEWIS (1596 - 1640), merchant and writer on economics Penrhyn (see Penrhyn family), and in the Elizabethan age, Sir Edward Herbert, afterwards lord Herbert of Chirbury, had inherited them. The surname 'Roberts' does not emerge in Gruffydd Llwyd's family until we come to the sons of one of his descendants, ROBERT AB IFAN. But it is clear that the family was by that time domiciled within Beaumaris borough. This Robert's first wife (J. E. Griffith, op. cit
ROBERTS, LEWIS JONES (1866 - 1931), inspector of schools, and musician William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) (Denbigh), 1908. Letters written by him are preserved in NLW MS 2810C, NLW MS 2826D, NLW MS 6270B, and NLW MS 7994D, and a piece of music (in memory of Sir O. M. Edwards) in NLW MS 2119D. He died 20 December 1931, and was buried in Henfynyw churchyard, near Aberaeron.
ROBERTS, ROBERT GRIFFITH (1866 - 1930), Baptist minister, and writer fell under the spell of Sir Henry Jones, and took eagerly to philosophy. He broke down during his final B.A. (London) examination (1892) and had to return home to regain health; he afterwards put in some terms at Aberystwyth, studying philosophy. In June 1896 he became pastor of the Baptist church at Dolgellau; he moved in June 1902 to the important church at Cefnmawr, Denbighshire, and finally (June
ROBERTS, IEUAN WYN PRITCHARD (1930 - 2013), journalist and politician

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