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ROBERTS, EMRYS OWEN (1910 - 1990), Liberal politician and public servant He was born at Caernarfon on 22 September 1910, the son of Owen Owens Roberts and Mary Grace Williams, both natives of Caernarfon. He was educated at Caernarfon Grammar School, the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1st class honours in law in 1931 and the Sir Samuel T. Evans Prize) and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1st class honours in both Part I and Part II of the Law Tripos
ROBERTS, GEORGE (1769 - 1853), settler and Independent minister in U.S.A. -agency fell to his lot; thenceforth he prospered, and purchased lands. In 1805 he had been encouraged to preach, and in June 1806 he was ordained co-pastor of the congregation at Ebensburg, where in 1834 he published A View of Primitive Ages, an English version of the famous classic of Theophilus Evans. He died in November 1853 at Ebensburg.
ROBERTS, GLYN (1904 - 1962), historian and administrator of the mission to the U.S.A. to secure raw materials to meet the needs of Britain. A glittering career as a Government administrator lay ahead, but he decided to return to his old college in Bangor as Registrar. He played an indispensable part in the post-war reorganisation of the college and the number of students increased substantially. In 1949, on the retirement of Robert Thomas Jenkins, the
ROBERTS, GOMER MORGAN (1904 - 1993), minister (CM), historian, author and hymnwriter . The family settled at Cwm-bach, a stone's throw from Bethel, Blaenau, Schoolroom, a branch of Gosen (CM), Llandybïe. He acknowledges in his writings the chapel's influence upon him and his indebtedness to its ministers, the Reverends W. Nantlais Williams, Philip Evans and Lemuel Lewis. His father died when he was only nine and in 1917, aged thirteen, he started work at Pencae'reithin colliery. The
ROBERTS, GORONWY OWEN (Baron Goronwy-Roberts), (1913 - 1981), Labour politician was awarded the Freedom of Caernarvon in 1972. His hobbies included walking, music and collecting year books and annuals, and he also wrote and broadcast regularly on political and literary topics. He was elected FRSA in 1967. His political papers are in the custody of the National Library of Wales. He had married in 1942 Marian Ann, the daughter of David and Elizabeth Evans of Robertstown, Aberdare
ROBERTS, GWYNETH PARUL (1910 - 2007), doctor and missionary Nurse Gwladys M. Evans (1905-1963) from Aberbargoed who, like Dr Roberts, was gifted with extraordinary energy. They both prepared textbooks and translated questions and answers for each exam. They were assisted with the diagrams of the textbooks by the missionary Gwen Rees Roberts who arrived in Aizawl in December 1944. She firmly believed that the Welsh Mission should be handed over to the religious
ROBERTS, HOWELL (Hywel Tudur; 1840 - 1922), poet, preacher and inventor '). He decided to settle in Clynnog where Eben Fardd (Ebenezer Thomas), 'aged patriarch', kept a school and post office. He was invited to design a new school for the village which could be adapted as houses, should that be necessary. He is referred to as running a school in Llanllyfni but his interests turned increasingly towards inventions, and especially to the principle of 'perpetual motion'. He
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, JOHN (Siôn Lleyn; 1749 - 1817), poet, schoolmaster, and religious pioneer Born at Chwilog Bach, Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire. He showed literary talent when he was quite young and published a poem - 'Barn Duw' - before he left his native parish. It would appear that he was a bardic pupil of David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri); there is an awdl by him in Cyhoeddiadau Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion, 1801. About the year 1802 he published Marwnad … Robert Roberts, Clynnog, and
ROBERTS, JOHN (Jack Russia; 1899 - 1979), miner, councillor and a prominent member of the Welsh Communist Party Roberts, who served his six months sentence in Cardiff Prison. He stood as a Communist candidate in the District Council elections in Abertridwr in 1932 and 1933 and he was close to success in 1934. By 1935 he used effectively his soap box from one street to another and finally gained victory over Daniel Walter Thomas, the Labour Party candidate. For the next eighteen years he served as a hard working
ROBERTS, JOHN (1775 - 1829), cleric and author in 1803 curate to the vicar of Tremeirchion, Flintshire, succeeding to the vicariate in 1807 on the death of his chief. He is most generally remembered for his vigorous opposition to the views of William Owen Pughe on Welsh orthography; when Thomas Charles of Bala, who had been dazzled by Pughe, decided to print the British and Foreign Bible Society's Welsh Bible in Pughe's orthography, a rather
ROBERTS, JOHN (1767 - 1834), Independent minister and theologian 1798 to take charge of the church. In addition to that he undertook to keep a day school in a building attached to the Old Chapel, and continued this work until his eldest son, Samuel Roberts ('S.R.') came to assist him as joint minister in 1827. He lived in the chapel-house belonging to the Old Chapel until 1806, when he moved to Diosg farm, close by; here he experienced the arrogance and tyranny of

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