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RICHARDS, JOHN (fl. 1778-1808), Baptist minister church in 1780. He ministered at Soar, Llandyfân, 1793-5. At the quarterly meeting held in February 1796 he submitted a scheme for the education of young preachers. In 1797 he wrote an elegy on the death of David Powell, Nottage. He was for seven years with the General Baptists but he reverted in 1807 and died before the Association of 1808.
RICHARDS, JOHN LLOYD (1790 - 1854), vicar - gweler RICHARDS, THOMAS
RICHARDS, ROBERT (1884 - 1954), historian and politician succeed in having this work published, but a typescript remains in the N.L.W. He did, however, publish part of it, on the Cistercian abbeys, in Trans. of the Denbighshire Historical Soc., vol. i (1952). [Another part dealing with the history of Cymer abbey was published posthumously in the Jnl. of the Merioneth Historical and Record Soc., vol. iii, part iii (1959)]. With R.G. Lloyd he published booklets
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1878 - 1962), librarian and historian of North Wales, Bangor (1899-1903) where he graduated with honours in history under the well-known historian Sir John Edward Lloyd. He was appointed a school-teacher at Towyn (1903-05), Bootle (1905-11), and Maesteg (1912-26). Thomas Shankland urged him to research the history of Puritanism in Wales in Lambeth Palace Library, the British Museum, the Public Record Office, and the Bodleian Library
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1754 - 1837), cleric Born at Hirnant, Pont Erwyd, Cardiganshire, 24 April 1754, son of Richard Thomas and Jane his wife. At the age of 19 he went to Ystradmeurig, where he met Thomas Jones (of Creaton) (1752 - 1845). The two men formed an intimate friendship which lasted all their days. Richards kept school at Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire, for three years, and in 1779 he married Jane, daughter of David Lloyd of Cymerau
RICHARDS, WILLIAM (1749 - 1818), General Baptist minister, theological and political controversialist, and antiquary impoverished him. He first aroused public notice (1781) in debates on baptism, with English Independents; and from 1788 till 1791 he and Benjamin Evans of Dre-wen (1740 - 1821) contended in Welsh on this subject. It must be confessed that Richards, in his debates, would lose all self-control; his sufficiently prickly fellow-heretic Charles Lloyd could say of him that 'his irritability was incredible
RICHARDS, WILLIAM LESLIE (1916 - 1989), Scholar, teacher, poet and author Born at Cwm, Capel Isaac, near Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, the second son of William Richards and his wife Anne (née Davies). William and Anne had four children, David Whitson (1915-1983), William Leslie, Eleanor Heddwen (1919-1966), and Benjamin Hugh (1924-). The parents were small-holders. He was educated at Capel Isaac primary school, Llandeilo Grammar School, and the University College of
RICHARDSON, EVAN (1759 - 1824), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and schoolmaster John Elias and Sir Hugh Owen, Richardson gave up the school when in 1817 his health began to fail, and was succeeded by William Lloyd (1771 - 1841). Evan Richardson was also practically the founder of the Calvinistic Methodist cause at Caernarvon; the first Calvinistic Methodist sermon there had been delivered in 1786 by David Jones of Llangan, and in 1787 (while still living at Llangybi) Richardson
teulu ROBERTS Mynydd-y-gof, DAVID ROBERTS (1788? - 1869), physician Medicine The son of John and Catherine Roberts of Aberalaw, Llanfachraeth; the origins of the family were in Llanddeusant parish. David Roberts was apprenticed with a physician at Holyhead; after assisting a physician in London for a while, he returned to Anglesey to practise (and to farm) at Mynydd-y-gof. In 1815 he married Sarah Foulkes (1788 - 1879
ROBERTS, ARTHUR RHYS (1872 - 1920), solicitor . Having decided to pursue a legal career, he spent a period in articles with a Bangor solicitor, John Glynne Jones. Having passed the Law Society's final examinations in April 1894 (coming third out of all candidates in England and Wales) he qualified, at the age of 22, as a solicitor. His first appointment as a solicitor was in the offices of Lloyd George and George, the firm of the local MP, David
ROBERTS, CADWALADR (bu farw 1708/9), poet of Cwmllech Uchaf, Pennant Melangell, Montgomeryshire. He was a contemporary of Huw Morys, and the dialogue poem concerning matrimony, jointly composed by them, shows that they were close acquaintances. He also composed some five nativity carols; one of these was published by David Jones of Trefriw in Blodeu-Gerdd Cymry. His satire on smallpox is also included in that volume. His poem begging a
ROBERTS, DAVID (Telynor Mawddwy; 1875 - 1956), harpist, singer and author of handbooks on penillion singing

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