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ROBERTS, GEORGE (1769 - 1853), settler and Independent minister in U.S.A. Born at Bron-y-llan, Mochdre, Montgomeryshire, 11 February 1769. His father was EVAN ROBERTS (1729 - 1813, obituary by his son John in Y Dysgedydd, May 1831), whose grandmother had been servant-maid to the old Puritan minister Henry Williams of Ysgafell. George's mother, Evan Roberts's first wife Mary (1734 - 1777, née Green - the Greens were also connected with Ysgafell), had a sister Elizabeth
ROBERTS, HUW (fl. c. 1555-1619), poet, author, and cleric families, including those of Bodorgan, Henblas, Mellteyrn, Mysoglen, Penhesgyn, Penrhyn, and Plas Iolyn. He composed a cywydd of welcome to Henry Rowland, bishop of Bangor, on the return of the latter from London in 1610, one on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a poem in the form of a dialogue between a cleric and his lover, a number of various englynion which include one to the Virgin Mary, and ymryson
ROBERTS, JOHN (1823 - 1893), billiards player landlord of the Griffin hotel. In 1849 he challenged Edwin Kentfield for the championship of England, but when the latter declined the challenge Roberts assumed the title, which he held till 1870, when he was defeated by his own pupil, W. Cook, who was in turn defeated by Roberts's son, John Roberts, junr., in 1885. He was the author of Billiards (ed. by Henry Buck), 1869. He died 27 March 1893 at his
ROBERTS, JOHN HENRY (Pencerdd Gwynedd; 1848 - 1924), musician
ROBERTS, LEWIS (1596 - 1640), merchant and writer on economics , and had a son named GABRIEL ROBERTS (his will, proved in 1614, reveals that he was a father and grandfather). His first wife was Anne, daughter of John Hawarden of Appleton near Widnes. Two of this Gabriel's sons call for notice: GABRIEL ROBERTS, merchant Business and Industry Executor of his father's will. By his time, in consequence of Henry VII's charter of 1507, and later of the Act of Union of
ROBERTS, PETER (1760 - 1819), cleric, Biblical scholar and antiquary succeeding Henry Ussher in the chair of astronomy at Trinity College, Dublin. As his health was poor he had, in 1789, to go to reside in the Barèges valley in the south of France to recuperate. Returning to Ireland he became family tutor, later accompanying two of his pupils to Eton; at the end of the boys' sojourn at Eton (where Peter Roberts had finished a Harmony of the Epistles, published at the
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 (1680 - 1741), cleric Born in 1680, son of Henry Roberts, ' gent., of Llandyssen, Denbighshire ' - presumably Llandysilio, near Llangollen. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, in March 1698/9, 'aged 18,' and graduated in 1702. In 1709 he was appointed vicar of Chirk, remaining there till his death there in 1741, at the age of 61, according to his tombstone. He published, in 1720, a bilingual booklet entitled
ROBERTS, ROBERT GRIFFITH (1866 - 1930), Baptist minister, and writer fell under the spell of Sir Henry Jones, and took eagerly to philosophy. He broke down during his final B.A. (London) examination (1892) and had to return home to regain health; he afterwards put in some terms at Aberystwyth, studying philosophy. In June 1896 he became pastor of the Baptist church at Dolgellau; he moved in June 1902 to the important church at Cefnmawr, Denbighshire, and finally (June
ROBERTS, ROBERT HENRY (1838 - 1900), Baptist minister and principal of Regent's Park College, London
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1884 - 1960), educationalist and scholar Llywelyn Goch - and for the texts of their poems. In the second edition, which appeared in 1935, Thomas Roberts added some poems and revised the introductions. In 1925 he took part in another joint effort, this time with Henry Lewis and Ifor Williams, to produce Cywyddau Iolo Goch ac eraill, in which Thomas Roberts dealt with Gruffudd Llwyd and Ieuan ap Rhydderch. The introductions were amplified and the
ROBERTS, WILLIAM CHARLES (1832 - 1903), Presbyterian minister, principal of colleges, and author moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Connexion (U.S.A.) in 1889. He published about eleven works (list in Henry Blackwell Bibliography of Welsh Americana, published by N.L.W.); he was the translator of Holwyddoreg Byrraf Eisteddfod Westminster, 1864. He died 28 November 1903.

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