Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, CARADOG (1878 - 1935), musician composed (or arranged) several hymn-tunes, most of which, e.g. 'Rachie' and 'In Memoriam' (in memory of Harry Evans), are included in Welsh hymnaries. He died 3 March 1935, and was buried in Rhosllanerchrugog cemetery.
ROBERTS, DAVID (Telynor Mawddwy; 1875 - 1956), harpist, singer and author of handbooks on penillion singing . ' Telynor Mawddwy ' was one of the key pioneers responsible for the revival of the old craft of singing to the harp in the early years of the 20 c., transforming the art from its old traditional oral form to the more consciously composed and written form of our time. Without Y Tant Aur perhaps the revival of the last fifty years would not have happened. He and his wife Jennie had two sons and a daughter
ROBERTS, DAVID (Alawydd; 1820 - 1872), quarryman and musician , under the title of Gramadeg Cerddorol; several other editions followed, the book being very much in demand. The Carneddi choir performed several oratorios under his conductorship. Anthems which he composed took prizes at Bethesda eisteddfodau held in 1852 and 1853, the anthem called ' Bendigedig fyddo'r Arglwydd ' being published in Y Gyfres Gerddorol. In 1867 he published Llyfr y Psalmau, containing
ROBERTS, EDWARD (fl. end of 18th century), editor of Tynewydd, Cefnddwysarn, near Bala, Meironnydd. In 1794 he edited a composite volume called Casgliad Defnyddiol o waith Amryw Awdwyr, consisting mainly of nine letters composed by Elis Roberts ('Elis y Cowper') as religious exhortations to his fellow countrymen. The volume also contained instructions on reading and writing Welsh by Thomas Jones, an account of the visions of one Richard Brightly
ROBERTS, ELIS (d. 1789), cooper, ballad-writer, and composer of interludes Edward Roberts, (late 18th century). There are at least nine of his interludes still extant: (a) in manuscript form - ' Argulus,' composed c. 1756; ' Jeils,' c. 1757; ' Oliffernes a Jiwdath,' 1766; ' Tair Rhan Oes Dyn,' before 1771; and his last interlude, 1789; (b) in print - Gras a Natur, 1769; Y Ddau Gyfamod, 1777; Pedwar Chwarter y Flwyddyn, written 1787; and Cristion a Drygddyn, 1788. As a
ROBERTS, EVAN JOHN (Y Diwygiwr, the Revivalist; 1878 - 1951), revivalist preacher , and he died there 29 January 1951. He was buried in the family grave in Moriah, Loughor. A monument to him in front of Moriah chapel was unveiled in 1953. During his early period Evan Roberts composed many poems and hymns, a selection of which is to be found in his biography. A collection of his hymns was published in Aberdare in 1905, and when he lived in Leicester he published a booklet
ROBERTS, HUW (fl. c. 1555-1619), poet, author, and cleric families, including those of Bodorgan, Henblas, Mellteyrn, Mysoglen, Penhesgyn, Penrhyn, and Plas Iolyn. He composed a cywydd of welcome to Henry Rowland, bishop of Bangor, on the return of the latter from London in 1610, one on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a poem in the form of a dialogue between a cleric and his lover, a number of various englynion which include one to the Virgin Mary, and ymryson
ROBERTS, JOHN (1910 - 1984), preacher, hymnist, poet wish to do so. He came to some prominence as a minor poet when he won the Chair at the Dyffryn Ogwen Eisteddfod for a series of lyric poems adjudicated by R. Williams Parry, a series of poems published, along with elegies composed on the death of Williams Parry and other poems, in the only volume of verse he published during his lifetime, Cloch y Bwi (Gwasg Gee, [1958]). The poems are simple well
ROBERTS, JOHN (Ieuan Gwyllt; 1822 - 1877), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and musician Born 27 December 1822 at Tanrhiwfelen, a house just outside Aberystwyth, the son of Evan and Elizabeth Roberts, who moved in 1823 to Ty'n-y-ffordd, Pen-llwyn, and, in 1829, to Pistyll-gwyn, Melindwr. The father was a precentor, the mother was also a good vocalist. He attended Lewis Edwards's school at Pen-llwyn for some years. When quite young he composed a poem to which he signed his name 'Ieuan
ROBERTS, JOHN (1807 - 1876), musician had been composed by musicians under the influence of religious revivals. Some of these he gave to John Parry, Chester, to be included in Peroriaeth Hyfryd, 1837. In 1839 he published Caniadau y Cysegr, which contained fifty-five old tunes harmonized by himself; this was the first collection for the use of Welsh congregations. In 1876, just after his death, his two sons published, under the title of
ROBERTS, JOHN (1806 - 1879), musician including that called ' Alexander ' which he had composed in 1824 (at the age of 18) and which had appeared in Greal y Bedyddwyr, 1833. He also published Seraff Cymru, which contains anthems and chants which had been edited by J. Wilks, organist at Aberystwyth. He moved to Aberdare in 1855; there he served as precentor in Pen-pound Baptist chapel for many years. He returned in 1873 to Aberystwyth where he
ROBERTS, JOHN HENRY (Pencerdd Gwynedd; 1848 - 1924), musician taught by Dr. S. S. Wesley, the cathedral organist, and, in 1870, to the Royal Academy of Music, London, where he stayed four years, during which time he composed a symphony, two overtures, a string quartette, sonatas, etc. To this period belongs, also, one of his best part-songs - ' Cwsg, Filwr, Cwsg ' - which was sung with marvellous effect by the choir at the Rhyl national eisteddfod, 1892. After

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