Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, WILLIAM (1809 - 1887), Calvinistic Methodist minister, editor, and author 1800, four volumes of Y Traethodydd yn America. In 1877 he left New York to take charge of Moriah Welsh Calvinistic Methodist church at Utica, New York state, remaining there until his death in 1887. He edited Y Cyfaill (Utica); he also published the following works - Darlith ar Elfennau Pabyddiaeth, 1855; Traethawd ar Etholedigaeth Gras, 1856; and Y Pechod o esgeuluso Moddion Gras, 1865. He died 2
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Eryri; 1844 - 1895?), poet and editor Born 22 March 1844 at Portmadoc, Caernarfonshire, the son of David and Catherine Roberts. He is said to have been a sailmaker. He won in many poetical competitions at eisteddfodau - mostly local, but also including the national eisteddfod held at Caernarvon in 1877. In 1879 he edited a volume of verse entitled Lloffion y Flwyddyn, which had appeared in the bardic column of the Herald Gymraeg, and
ROOSE, LEIGH RICHMOND (1877 - 1916), Association football player which he divined the aims of his opponents, the swift agile mind that worked behind the small, narrow eyes. His personality dominated everything and everybody; and he was human enough to be more than delighted with the acclamations of the multitude. Roose was born at Holt near Wrexham on 27 November 1877, the son of the Rev. R. L. Roose, the Presbyterian minister; he was for a time at the Holt Academy
ROWLAND, JOHN (1816? - 1888), Unitarian writer his theological and political ideas. His poetic compositions include a lengthy poem, Telyn yr Oes, neu Gân ar y Beibl mewn mewn gysylltiadau pwysig i'r byd wedi eu dosbarthu yn dair pennod yn cynnwys dros gant ac wyth o linellau, 1877, and two ballads - Y Llo Aur yn arwain llu, 1880, and Anerchiad Mr. John Jones i John Bwl, yswain, ar y gwaddoliadau, trethoedd, etc., 1879. He died 12 January 1888
ROWLAND, Sir JOHN (1877 - 1941), civil servant Born 1 June 1877, at Penbont-fach, Tregaron, Cardiganshire, son of John Rowland and Margaret, his wife. He was educated at the Technical College, Cardiff, and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. On leaving college in 1904 he taught at Cardiff, and identified himself with Welsh religious and cultural movements there. He attracted the notice of David Lloyd George and after serving as one
ROWLAND, ROBERT DAVID (Anthropos; ?1853 - 1944), minister (CM), poet and writer Rhosymedre, and probably in other places, but he went to Holt Academy when he was about twenty, and began to preach in 1873, entering Bala College the following year. During his time in Bala he was for a short period a teacher at the local school, and in 1877 he published his first book of verse, Y Blodeuglwm. He did not proceed to a pastoral charge at once, but entered journalism in Caernarfon, first on
ROWLANDS, JOHN (Giraldus; 1824 - 1891), antiquary many years. He was cheerful and very contented, and a zealous churchman'. Besides the books named above, he published The Pedigree of the Ancient Family of Dolau Cothi (Carmarthen, 1877) and Welsh Royalists (Cardiff, 1881).
SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), evangelist and author (1866-1928), Edward (1867-69), John Humphreys Davies (1871-1926) who became Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Walter Ernest Llewelyn (1874-1941), and George (1877-1877). On her father's side S.M.S. was a great-great-granddaughter of David Charles, brother of Thomas Charles of Bala, and on her mother's side a great-great-granddaughter of the Biblical commentator Peter Williams
SAUNDERSON, ROBERT (1780 - 1863), printer and publisher cholera at New Orleans, 24 October 1832 (Seren Gomer, 1833, 94), in his twenty-third year. His literary remains, Gweddillion o Waith Barddonol Charles Saunderson, were published by his father in 1845 (extracts in Beirdd y Bala, ed. O. M. Edwards); there is an elegy upon him by Tegidon (John Phillips, 1810 - 1877) who had been one of his father's apprentices. Another son was ROBERT SAUNDERSON (1814
SHAND, FRANCES BATTY (c.1815 - 1885), charity worker the role of secretary (The Western Mail, 2 August 1877). Elsewhere, press reports appear to attribute the founding of the institute more firmly to Frances herself (The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette, 8 April 1871). After modest beginnings, where a small number of blind people were taught at their own houses, the institute progressed to a succession of premises
STEPHEN, THOMAS (1856 - 1906), musician Born 24 February 1856 at Brynaman, Glamorganshire. His parents moved to Aberdare when he was a child and it was there, in Ysgol y Comin, that he went to school. He joined the Aberdare Choral Society then under the conductorship of G. Rhys Jones (Caradog), and when the latter gave up the conductorship and was succeeded by Rhys Evans, Stephen became assistant conductor. In 1877 he became precentor
THIRLWALL, CONNOP (1797 - 1875), bishop of S. Davids in 1860), but he set to work to learn Welsh, and within a year was able to preach in Welsh; a volume of his Welsh sermons was published under the editorship of E. O. Phillips in 1877, although it must be confessed that his Welsh was stiff and largely unintelligible to the masses. He was a vigorous and generous bishop. He is said to have distributed £40,000 in charity, including the amounts

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