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ROBERTS, GLYN (1904 - 1962), historian and administrator Born 31 August 1904 at Bangor, Caernarfonshire, son of William and Ann Roberts, and educated at Friars School from 1915 to 1922 when he won a scholarship to the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He studied history under John Edward Lloyd and Arthur Herbert Dodd and graduated with first-class honours in 1925. He undertook research into the parliamentary history of the north Wales boroughs
ROBERTS, GOMER MORGAN (1904 - 1993), minister (CM), historian, author and hymnwriter fellowship at the mine was almost entirely Welsh and religion, literature and the issues of the day the subjects of conversation and discussion. He joined an Aberystwyth University College Extra-Mural Welsh Class at Ammanford, led by the Reverend John Griffiths, later Principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff. There he was introduced to the mysteries of strict metre poetry and came into contact with other
ROBERTS, GORONWY OWEN (Baron Goronwy-Roberts), (1913 - 1981), Labour politician candidate by a margin of more than 10,000 votes, and he continued to represent the division until the election of February 1974, when he was unexpectedly defeated by Dafydd Wigley (Plaid Cymru). He had served as an MP for twenty-nine years continuously, and his defeat vexed him deeply. He was chairman of Hughes a'i Fab, publishers, Wrexham, 1955-59, and a member of the Courts of the National Library, the
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1912 - 1969), priest and poet service to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the translation of the New Testament into Welsh, at Gyffin, the birthplace of Bishop Richard Davies. When the Bishop of Bangor (John Charles Jones) decided to lead a diocesan pilgrimage to Bardsey in 1952 he asked G.J. Roberts to arrange the route and to write the script giving the historical background. He was one of the small band who sailed over to the
ROBERTS, GWEN REES (1916 - 2002), missionary and teacher onwards through the jungle and along poor roads to Aizawl. They were to settle there, Gwen sharing a bungalow with Katie Hughes (Pi Zaii; 1889-1963), who became a firm friend and supporter. She also got to know the doctor Gwyneth Parul Roberts, who performed surgery to remove her appendix six months after her arrival. The work before her was extremely varied and challenging. Her main duty was to succeed
ROBERTS, GWILYM OWEN (1909 - 1987), author, lecturer, minister and psychologist , superstitious and supernatural religion continued to arouse a strong reaction throughout the sixties. According to his editor, John Roberts Williams, his column 'created the greatest excitement in the Welsh press for a hundred years'. His columns for Y Cymro are not only a valuable historical source, which reveal important aspects of the debate in Wales in the fifties and sixties around religion, but also a
ROBERTS, GWYNETH PARUL (1910 - 2007), doctor and missionary Gwyneth Roberts was born on 1 November 1910 in Sylhet, India, the second child of the Reverend John William Roberts (1880-1969), a member of a Liverpool Welsh family and Ethel Griffith Roberts (née Jones, 1879-1972), born in Manchester. Her parents had gone as missionaries to Sylhet in 1907, and were based there for almost forty years. They had three children: the first died in childhood, and a
ROBERTS, HUGH GORDON (1885 - 1961), surgeon and missionary 1966), daughter of John Jones, Liverpool, in 1913 he went to work to the Khasia Hills, India. They had a son and daughter. He was a civilian surgeon in the capital, Shillong, during 1914-19, and was loaned to the Assam government by the Missionary Society (CM). This gave him an opportunity to quantify and understand the great needs of the province. Before his time the Mission had a travelling doctor
ROBERTS, JOHN (Minimus; 1808 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author cemetery, Liverpool. A daughter survived him. Minimus wrote much for the C.M. periodicals, e.g. Y Traethodydd and Y Drysorfa - he edited the latter in 1846, and afterwards, jointly with Roger Edwards, till 1852. With Richard Williams (1802 - 1842) he edited Y Pregethwr, 1835-8. He collaborated with John Jones (1790 - 1855) in a biography of John Elias, and wrote two other biographies; he also wrote hymns
ROBERTS, JOHN (Siôn Robert Lewis; 1731 - 1806), author, almanack-maker, and hymn-writer . Gouge and S. Hughes, 1677; Hymnau a Chaniadau, 1764; Rhyfyddeg neu Arithmetic, 1768, the first arithmetic book in Welsh; Geirlyfr Ysgrythurol, 1773, the first Welsh scriptural dictionary; Caniadau Preswylwyr y Llwch, 1778; Yr Athrofa Rad, 1788. While the books that Roberts wrote, compiled, and issued were good and valuable, his fame rests rather on his 'Almanacks,' which he commenced to issue about
ROBERTS, JOHN (1576 - 1610), Benedictine monk and martyr 1595/6, where he came into close contact with John (Leander) Jones. After leaving Oxford in 1598 he spent a few months studying law at Furnival's Inn and then went on a tour of the Continent. While he was in Paris he became a Roman Catholic and was admitted to S. Alban's Jesuit College, Valladolid, 18 October 1598. After being there a year he decided to join the Benedictine Order, adopted the name of
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

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