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ROBERTS, JOHN JOHN (Iolo Caernarfon; 1840 - 1914), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and prose-writer Wales Association in 1906, and ' Davies Lecturer ' in 1907, and indeed figured conspicuously in the administration of his connexion; but he was at his best as a preacher and a public speaker. He wrote much poetry, won the crown at the national eisteddfod twice (1890, 1892), and quite a number of prizes for poems of various kinds; and he adjudicated in the 'crown' competitions on several occasions. He
ROBERTS, KATE (1891 - 1985), author , Mary, Jane, and Owen) and three younger brothers, Richard (Dic), Evan, and David (Dei). From 1895 onwards the family lived in Cae'r Gors, a smallholding, where they practised subsistence farming to bolster the family income. Cae'r Gors was Kate's home for most of her early years, and she conveys a vivid sense of the cottage and its surrounding four fields in her 1961 autobiography, Y Lôn Wen (The
ROBERTS, LEWIS JONES (1866 - 1931), inspector of schools, and musician Born 29 May 1866 at Aberaeron, Cardiganshire, the son of Lewis Roberts and his wife, Margaret (Jones). He was educated at S. David's College, Lampeter (B.A.), and Exeter College, Oxford (M.A.); whilst he was at Oxford he was a member of ' Cymdeithas Dafydd ap Gwilym.' He married, 1888, Mary Noel Griffiths, daughter of capt. Griffiths, Old Bank, Aberaeron; there were six sons and three daughters
ROBERTS, MICHAEL HILARY ADAIR (1927 - 1983), Conservative politician State for Wales, the minister responsible for education in the Principality. He was president of the Conservative Trades Unionists, 1977-79, and he was elected president of the Association of Conservative Clubs in 1980. In 1974 Roberts became an associate director of John Addey Associates, a public relations company, and in 1975 he was appointed an industrial consultant to Minton, Treharne and Davies
ROBERTS, OWEN OWEN (1793 - 1866), physician and social reformer Born 17 January 1793, son of William Lloyd and Mary Roberts of Cefn-y-coed, in the parish of Eglwys-bach, Denbighshire. He was educated at Llanrwst grammar school and in the medical schools of Edinburgh and Dublin. He worked as a medical officer at the Royal Hospital, Chester, and in the Llanrwst, Caernarvon, and Bangor districts. He was particularly interested in public health and made a special
ROBERTS, RICHARD (1789 - 1864), inventor Born 22 April 1789 at Carreg-hwfa toll-gate-house, Llanymynech, second of the seven children of the gate-keeper (and shoemaker) Richard Roberts and his wife Mary (Jones, of Meifod). In the parish school the curate noted and fostered the mechanical instinct which had led the boy of 10 to construct a spinning-wheel for his mother. After a spell as barge-man on the canal, the lad worked in 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, RICHARD (1769 - 1855), harpist Since John Parry ('Bardd Alaw') referred to him in 1808 as a very good harpist who had been collecting the works of the poets for many years, 1769 should be accepted as his year of birth, as given by R. Griffith in Cerdd Dannau. According to M. Davies (Meurig Idris) he was born in the commote of Ardudwy, Merioneth, but John Parry (Bardd Alaw) said that his birthplace was Cefn-y-mein, Llŷn
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1834 - 1885), cleric and scholar Born 12 November 1834, son of Owen Roberts and Mary his wife, of Hafod Bach, Llanddewi, Llangernyw, Denbighshire. He went to Bala to Lewis Edwards for two years, 1847-9, and then for two years more was a private tutor in Anglesey before being admitted to the training college at Caernarvon. He obtained his certificate there, and taught at Castle Caereinion and Llanllechid (1853), Amlwch, and
ROBERTS, ROBERT (SILYN) (Rhosyr; 1871 - 1930), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, social reformer, tutor Cymreig, The Welsh Outlook, etc. He published Gwyntoedd Croesion, 1924 (a translation of J. O. Francis's drama, Cross Currents), Bugail Geifr Lorraine, 1925 (a translation of Souvestre's novel), and in 1945, a romance, Llio Plas y Nos. He married, in 1905, Mary Parry, of London, and had two sons and one daughter. He died at Bangor 15 August 1930.
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1840 - 1871), musician Born 24 May 1840 at Tanysgafell, Bethesda, Caernarfonshire. He was 12 when his father died and he began to work in a quarry. He was taught the rudiments of music by Owen Humphrey Davies (Eos Llechid). Henry Samuel Hayden then gave him some instruction and the boy was admitted, when he was 14, to the training college at Caernarvon where Hayden taught; he afterwards followed Hayden in his post. In
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1800 - 1878), schoolmaster and Calvinistic Methodist minister at all times on any subject, a fine scholar, but more a thinker than a reader. Peter Davies, Y Glyn, and David Jones, Dolau Bach, two Llangeitho elders, urged him to preach. He was a mature preacher when he was ordained at the Cardigan Association, 1847, but he is said to have increased in sweetness and in respect and acceptability until the end. Dr. Lewis Edwards classed him as a preacher worth

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