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ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Eryri; 1844 - 1895?), poet and editor in the 1880s a volume of the works of Mary Davies (1846 - 1882), the Portmadoc poetess, under the title Blodeu Eifion, sef Gwaith Barddonol Mair Eifion. Three of his own poems, which he had submitted in the competition for the chair at the national eisteddfod in 1884, 1887, and 1894 respectively, were published, viz., Awdl ar Gwilym Hiraethog, 1884; Y Frenhines Victoria, 1887; and Hunan Aberth
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (fl. c. 1825), ostler and musician Lived in Tyn-y-maes, near Bethesda, Caernarfonshire and who attended to the horses drawing the London and Holyhead mail coaches. He attended music classes conducted by Robert Williams ('Cae Aseth'), whom he used to accompany in order to help to conduct in Sunday school at Nant-y-benglog. William Owen, of Prysgol (1813 - 1893), used to visit Tyn-y-maes and received lessons from ' Wil Brych.' He
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (1828 - 1872), Congregational college tutor Born 1 July 1828 at Dowlais, son of Daniel Roberts, minister of Bryn Seion Congregational church (Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, ii, 280-1). From Ffrŵd-y-fâl Academy he went in 1845 to Coward College in London, but almost immediately removed to Carmarthen Presbyterian College. With a Dr. Williams scholarship (1850) he went up to Glasgow University, where he remained for three years; but though
ROBERTS, WILLIAM HENRY (1907 - 1982), actor, broadcaster teacher at Newborough school in 1931 where he spent the rest of his life, as teacher and then headmaster of the school. Broadcasting in Welsh began from Bryn Meirion Bangor in 1935 and W. H. Roberts took part in very many feature programmes produced by Sam Jones, Ifan O. Williams, Dafydd Gruffydd and John Gwilym Jones. He won the champion elocution prize at the Cardiff National Eisteddfod in 1937 and
ROBESON, PAUL LEROY (1898 - 1976), actor, singer and political activist attending the National Eisteddfod in Ebbw Vale, where he met Aneurin Bevan and was presented with a hymn book by T. H. Parry-Williams and proclaimed: 'You have shaped my life - I have learnt a lot from you. I am part of the working class. Of all the films I have made the one I will preserve is The Proud Valley.' Robeson's activities throughout this period were accompanied by a concomitant deterioration of
teulu ROBINSON Conway, Monachdy, Gwersyllt, useful to Owen Wynn of Gwydir by reminding the dying archbishop John Williams, of a promised legacy to his niece Grace, Wynn's wife. JOHN ROBINSON (1617 - 1681), royalist commander Military Royalty and Society The eldest son of the above William Robinson. He entered Christ Church, Oxford, in 1634 (26 September) and Gray's Inn in 1637 (23 December). After service in Ireland he was commissioned as
ROBINSON, GILBERT WOODING (1888 - 1950), professor of Agricultural Chemistry, world authority on soils Born at Wolverhampton, 7 November 1888, son of John Fairs and Mary Emma Robinson. He was educated at Wolverhampton grammar school and Cambridge University where he was a scholar of Caius College (B.A. 1910). For two years he acted as demonstrator in the School of Agriculture at Cambridge and completed a survey of the soils and agriculture of Shropshire (1913). In 1912 he was appointed adviser in
ROCH, WALTER FRANCIS (1880 - 1965), politician and landowner rather than Lloyd George, a decision which put an end to his political career. Roch was the author of Mr. Lloyd George and the War (1920). In 1934 he was appointed J.P. for Monmouthshire. He married in 1911 the Hon. Fflorens Mary Ursula Herbert, the only daughter of Sir Ivor Herbert, M.P. for South Monmouthshire, 1906-17, and the first and last Baron Treowen. Roch and his wife spent the last 25 yrs of
RODERICK, JOHN (1673 - 1735), grammarian, printer and publisher of almanacks and books, poet, and eisteddfodwr . 14874 (which he had owned) is written ' Llyfr Cywyddau Siôn Rhydderch, 1709; b. April 11, 1675 '. He printed and published in Shrewsbury his Grammadeg Cymraeg, 1728; a second edition was published at Carmarthen in 1824. With the collaboration of John Williams, Witley, Salop, he produced and published an English and Welch Dictionary, of which three editions appeared. He had before this begun to prepare
ROOS, WILLIAM (1808 - 1878), portrait painter and engraver The son of Thomas and Mary Roose, Bodgadfa, Amlwch, he was christened at Amlwch 30 April 1808. His paintings of 'The Death of Owen Glyndwr' and 'The Death of Captan [sic] Wynn at Alma' were awarded second place at the national eisteddfod held at Llangollen in 1858. He was a popular portrait painter and the N.L.W. holds his portraits in oils of Christmas Evans, John Cox, Thomas Charles, John Jones
ROWLAND, DANIEL (1713 - 1790), Methodist cleric collection of Hymnau Duwiol in 1745. His last collection was published in 1772 under the title Pum Pregeth ac Amryw o Hymnau. He was a pioneer of the Welsh hymn before William Williams of Pantycelyn had begun to write hymns. He translated some English books into Welsh, e.g. Bunyan's Holy War, 1744; Aceldama, 1759; Wetherall's Fifteen Sermons, 1762; and the elder Thomas Boston's The Crook in the Lot, 1769
ROWLAND, NATHANIEL (1749 - 1831), Methodist cleric Pembrokeshire and Cardiganshire. He was a Methodist like his father and appears to have officiated as secretary of the Calvinistic Methodist Association, 1778-97. He was for years the mainstay of Methodism in Pembrokeshire, ministered to the societies formed by his father-in-law, and had charge of Tabernacle, Haverfordwest. William Williams of Pantycelyn called upon him to take his father's place as leader of

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