Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, HUGH (1644? - 1702), Quaker Penn in order to discuss the formation of a Welsh settlement in Pennsylvania and he joined with sixteen others from the neighbourhood of Bala in the purchase of parcels of land in what came to be called ' Merion ' (in the ' Welsh Tract') in Pennsylvania; it was he who led the second group of settlers from Merioneth - he and his family receiving, 2 May 1683, a ticket of membership and ownership which
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 (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, 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 BRYN (1843 - 1931), lawyer and politician Born 8 January 1843 (and christened John Roberts), son of Daniel and Anne Roberts, Bryn Adda, Bangor, was a member of the widespread Roberts family of Castell, Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire, for which see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 381. He was educated at Cheltenham, qualified as solicitor in 1868, but was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1889. In 1885 he became Liberal Member of
ROBERTS, JOHN IORWERTH (1902 - 1970), schoolmaster and secretary of Llangollen International Eisteddfod Born 8 March 1902 in Warrington, son of William John Roberts, Presb. minister, and his wife Harriet, daughter of Edward Roberts, minister of Engedi (Presb.), Brymbo, onetime chairman of Denbighshire education committee. The family moved to Pontrhythallt, Llanrug, Caernarfonshire in 1911 and he attended Penisa'r'waun school, and then Brynrefail intermediate school (1914-19) and the Normal College
ROBERTS, KATE (1891 - 1985), author Kate Roberts, known as Cadi within her family, was born on February 13, 1891 in Rhosgadfan, Caernarfonshire. She was the first child born to Owen Owen Roberts (1851-1931), a slate quarryman, and Catherine Roberts (née Cadwaladr) (1855-1944), formerly a midwife. Both her parents had been married before and widowed; Kate had four older half-siblings from her parents' first marriages (John Evan
ROBERTS, LEWIS (1596 - 1640), merchant and writer on economics His family (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 96) is an interesting example of Welsh infiltration into the English boroughs of north-west Wales. Its first member known to us is a Gruffydd Llwyd (died 1375), who lived in the bond vill of Penhwnllys in Dindaethwy commote, i.e. on land which had once belonged to the house of Ednyfed Fychan - by 1413 these lands were in the possession of Gwilym Gruffydd of
ROBERTS, MORRIS (1799 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and later Independent minister Born at Llechwedd-ystrad, Llanuwchllyn, in May 1799. He attended for a time one of Dr. Daniel Williams's schools, which was kept in the ' Old Chapel,' but the teacher at that time was highly incompetent; however, he was given an excellent grounding in the Bible by George Lewis. The family was so poor that he had to start earning a living when he was 10 years of age, and worked on a number of
ROBERTS, PETER (1760 - 1819), cleric, Biblical scholar and antiquary succeeding Henry Ussher in the chair of astronomy at Trinity College, Dublin. As his health was poor he had, in 1789, to go to reside in the Barèges valley in the south of France to recuperate. Returning to Ireland he became family tutor, later accompanying two of his pupils to Eton; at the end of the boys' sojourn at Eton (where Peter Roberts had finished a Harmony of the Epistles, published at the
ROBERTS, RICHARD (Bardd Treflys; 1818 - 1876), poet Son of Thomas and Mary Roberts, Garthmorthin, Treflys, between Portmadoc and Criccieth, Caernarfonshire - he hailed from the family of ' Dafydd y Garreg Wen '. When he was about 20 years of age, he went to live at Ty-mawr, Treflys, the home of Griffith Roberts, an uncle, and spent the remainder of his days there, unmarried. He was a zealous member of the Cefnymeusydd literary society - see Ellis
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1800 - 1878), schoolmaster and Calvinistic Methodist minister Born near Tre'r Ddôl, Llangynfelyn, Cardiganshire, in 1800, the son of John and Betty Roberts, but was brought up at Glandŵr, near Gogerddan. His family worshipped at Pen-y-garn. He was educated at Llanfihangel-genau'r glyn, in a local grammar school of repute, kept by a master chosen from the best pupils at Ystrad Meurig. There he studied the classics. He was for a time schoolmaster at Staines

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