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ROBERTS, JOHN (Minimus; 1808 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author cemetery, Liverpool. A daughter survived him. Minimus wrote much for the C.M. periodicals, e.g. Y Traethodydd and Y Drysorfa - he edited the latter in 1846, and afterwards, jointly with Roger Edwards, till 1852. With Richard Williams (1802 - 1842) he edited Y Pregethwr, 1835-8. He collaborated with John Jones (1790 - 1855) in a biography of John Elias, and wrote two other biographies; he also wrote hymns
ROBERTS, JOHN (1767 - 1834), Independent minister and theologian Born 25 February 1767 at Bron-y-llan, Mochdre, Montgomeryshire. His parents were Evan and Mary Roberts (see under George Roberts), members of the Independent congregation at Llanbryn-mair who attended a branch chapel at Aberhafesp. When he was 18 years of age he went to live with his elder sister at Llanbryn-mair, where he became a member of the church October 1786. In January 1790 he began to
ROBERTS, JOHN (1910 - 1984), preacher, hymnist, poet he was seven), and afterwards took a clerical course at "Owens' College" in Holyhead. He worked for a short time with an insurance company in Wrexham, but from early youth his ambition was to become a preacher. In 1928 he entered the Connexion's preparatory school in North Wales, Ysgol Clynnog, which in 1929 was transferred to Rhyl. He notes that it was the school's principal, R. Dewi Williams, who
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 JOHN (Iolo Caernarfon; 1840 - 1914), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and prose-writer 1873 he became pastor at Trefriw, was ordained in 1874, and in the same year married Ann Williams (1846 - 1910) of Castellgoed in Eifionydd. In 1879 he was called to Tabernacle Calvinistic Methodist church at Portmadoc, and remained there till his retirement in 1909. He died 5 November 1914, aged 74. He had been moderator of the Calvinistic Methodist General Assembly in 1900, moderator of the North
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, OWEN MADOC (1867 - 1948), minister (Meth.) was highly respected. He married Margaret Jane Williams (died 29 May 1939) of Caernarfon, and they had two daughters and a son. He died 25 October 1948, 81 years old, and was buried in Llanbeblig churchyard, Caernarfon.
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 (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 , Caernarfonshire. He became blind at the age of 8, following an attack of smallpox. Taught to play the harp by the famous harpist William Williams ('Wil Penmorfa'), he became one of the most accomplished players on the triple harp in his period. He won the silver harp offered at the Wrexham eisteddfod of 1820, and the gold harp at the Denbigh eisteddfod of 1828. He adjudicated much - e.g. at the Abergavenny
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

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