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ROBERTS, RICHARD (1769 - 1855), harpist
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 (Gruffydd Rhisiart; 1810 - 1883), writer and Independent preacher
ROBERTS, RICHARD (GWYLFA; 1871 - 1935), Congregational minister, poet and prose-writer Born 24 May (according to Who's Who in Wales, presumably his own statement), but according to some obituary notices, 22 May 1871, at Penmaenmawr, son of Richard and Ellen Roberts. He was at ysgol ramadeg Botwnnog, and in 1892 went to Bala-Bangor Independent College. In 1895 he became pastor at Felinheli ('Port Dinorwic'); from 1898 till his death he was pastor of Tabernacle church, Llanelly. He
ROBERTS, RICHARD (1874 - 1945), preacher, theologian and author
ROBERTS, RICHARD ARTHUR (1851 - 1943), archivist and editor
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1762 - 1802), Calvinistic Methodist preacher chapel, and from that time changed his company and his way of life. He also left the quarry and after being employed for some time at Cefn Pencoed farm moved to Coed-cae-du, the home of Richard Jones of Y Wern (1772? - 1833). The break-down of his health came as a bitter blow to this strong young man, for it is true to say that his constitution was permanently undermined by agonising rheumatism, and it
ROBERTS, ROBERT DAVIES (1851 - 1911), pioneer in adult education and scientist Born 5 March 1851, at Aberystwyth, eldest son of Richard Davies Roberts, timber merchant, and Sara Davies. Educated locally and at Oswestry, the Liverpool Institute, University College, London (B.Sc., 1st class in geology, 1870, D.Sc., 1878), Clare College, Cambridge (2nd class natural sciences tripos., 1875), he was (1876-7) temporary lecturer at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
ROBERTS, ROBERT ELLIS VAUGHAN (1888 - 1962), headmaster and naturalist naturalist, Richard Morgan (1854 - 1939). In 1942 he was appointed the first head of the elementary agricultural technical school at Llysfasi but in 1948 returned to the headship of Llanarmon-yn-Iâl school, a post which he held until his retirement in 1953. Throughout his life he was a regular contributor to a number of Welsh and English journals incl. Y Cymro, Yr Herald Cymraeg, Meirionnydd, Yr Athro
ROBERTS, ROBERT GRIFFITH (1866 - 1930), Baptist minister, and writer - the followers of John Richard Jones. Baptized c. 1880, and elected deacon when not quite 17, R. G. Roberts soon felt chafed by the rigidity of the little connexion, and went over to the older Baptist denomination. His schooling (at Dyffryn, and at Towyn, Meironnydd) was interrupted; but in 1886 he went to the Baptist College at Llangollen, and thence to the University College at Bangor, where he
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1765-6 - 1841) Llwyn'rhudol, pamphleteer Poultry, and in 1805 in the firm of Thomas and R. J. Roberts of 40 Poultry. Later, however, he was in the service of another firm, and in 1820 he visited Jersey as its representative. On this occasion he visited Brittany at the expense of Richard Edmunds, treasurer of the Welsh School, London. In the next year he went as the firm's representative to Ghent, and stayed until the beginning of 1823. It is
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1735 - 1804), member of the 'Trevecka Family' .), extending to 1789, are of very great interest. He died, 1804 - ' Thomas Roberts, gent. ' - and was buried at Talgarth 23 January 1804. He was twice married. There is an account of him and of his family by Richard Bennett in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, x, 21-8. He has sometimes (e.g. in the footnote on p. 704 of Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry) been confused with Thomas Roberts (1760

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