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ROBERTS, GWEN REES (1916 - 2002), missionary and teacher Gwen Rees Roberts was born on 2 March 1916 in Morfa Nefyn, Llŷn, the daughter of Hugh Griffith Roberts (died c.1940) and his wife Gwen Rees Roberts. Her mother died aged 31 within a few days of her birth, and approximately three years later, her father remarried a widow whose daughter, Emily, was eight years older than Gwen. The family was further expanded by the birth of a son, Hugh Wilson
ROBERTS, GWILYM OWEN (1909 - 1987), author, lecturer, minister and psychologist traditions. This is reflected in the fact that the Lolfa, a comparatively new and experimental press, were the only publisher in Wales to print his work. Prominent older figures also supported his ideas, and his most loyal defender was undoubtedly his friend Professor J. R. Jones. Jones acknowledged his debt to his friend in terms of the development of his theological philosophy regularly in the early
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, HOWELL (Hywel Tudur; 1840 - 1922), poet, preacher and inventor he had spent his youth. He was the editor of Gweithiau Barddonol Eben Fardd (with Wm. Jones, junior 1873?); and author of Llyfr Genesis ar Gân; Tlysau Beuno (1902).
ROBERTS, HUGH GORDON (1885 - 1961), surgeon and missionary One of the sons of David Roberts of Dolenog, Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, and his wife Jane Sarah, daughter of Thomas Price Jones of Liverpool. He was born 16 July 1885 in Liverpool and was reared there. He was a great-grandson of David Roberts (1788 - 1869), a doctor in Bodedern, Anglesey, and Sir William Roberts, F.R.S. (1830 - 1899), who was a prominent doctor in Manchester and London, was his
ROBERTS, IOAN (1941 - 2019), journalist, producer and author interviews, and the autobiographies of Gwilym Plas, Llwyndyrus, Stewart Jones and Hywel Heulyn. He was one of the ablest editors of Plaid Cymru publications in both languages - at the national level with Y Ddraig Goch and Welsh Nation and in his local constituencies, Pontypridd in the 1989 by-election, and later Caernarfon after he returned to live in Pwllheli. Dafydd Wigley has said that he owes Ioan
ROBERTS, JOHN (Siôn Lleyn; 1749 - 1817), poet, schoolmaster, and religious pioneer Gaingc; see also Adgof uwch anghof by John Jones (Myrddin Fardd), and the Myrddin Fardd manuscripts in N.L.W. Siôn Lleyn wrote some hymns also. He died 7 May 1817 and was buried in Deneio churchyard, Pwllheli.
ROBERTS, JOHN (1879 - 1959), minister (Presb.) and historian as minister at Aberdovey (1903-06), David St., Liverpool (1906-13), and Pembroke Tce., Cardiff (1913-38). He was called to serve as secretary of the Central Fund of the South Wales Association in 1938; ten years later the funds of North and South Wales were combined and he became the first secretary of the united Fund of the Presbyterian Church of Wales. In 1903 he married Annie Jones Hughes
ROBERTS, JOHN (Siôn Robert Lewis; 1731 - 1806), author, almanack-maker, and hymn-writer before Bangor consistory court in August 1765 for keeping a school in Llaniestyn without a licence. He was the author of many works on various subjects; these include Rhai Hymnau, 1760, which he wrote in conjunction with Richard Jones; Yr Anedigaeth Newydd, 1762, a translation of an English pamphlet, The New Birth; Drych y Cristion, 1766, which was the second edition of Carwr y Cymru published by T
ROBERTS, JOHN (Jack Russia; 1899 - 1979), miner, councillor and a prominent member of the Welsh Communist Party Born 1 May 1899 in Penrhyndeudraeth, Meirionethshire, the son of John Roberts, a miner and Mary Jones, daughter of a blacksmith from Harlech. He was brought up by his grandparents in Penrhyndeudraeth and received his education in the local schools. When he left in 1913 his grandmother Sarah Jones arranged for him to travel to his parents' home in Abertridwr, where he found work at the Windsor
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 (1767 - 1834), Independent minister and theologian preach ' and the following March went, at his own expense, to the North Wales Academy at Oswestry which was at that time conducted by Edward Williams (1750 - 1813), where he remained until Whit Sunday, 'trying to learn Latin.' He then worked for some time on the same subject with Abraham Tibbott at Llanuwchllyn, and after that with Benjamin Jones at Pwllheli. In January 1791 the Congregational Board

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