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teulu ROBERTS Mynydd-y-gof, Edwards Letters (ed. T. I. Ellis, 1952-3) has brought into fuller light his inestimably valuable services to the college in very critical days.] He died 5 November 1902. (Mynydd-y-gof; obituary notices in the press.) His son, FREDERICK CHARLES ROBERTS (1862 - 1894), medical missionary Religion Medicine A Congregationalist by upbringing, he was educated at Manchester grammar school, at Aberystwyth
ROBERTS, DAVID (Dewi Ogwen; 1818 - 1897), Independent minister charm of his eloquence and partly because of his genial personality, and he retained his hold on his congregations until the end. He was in his day a writer and poet of some standing; he had been awarded a number of prizes and had been invested as a bard at Caernarvon in 1862, receiving the name Dewi Ogwen. Hymns written by him are to be found in Y Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol Newydd, and he was one of the
ROBERTS, EDWARD (Iorwerth Glan Aled; 1819 - 1867), poet and writer at Liverpool and at Rhymney, Monmouth He wrote much to journals and newspapers and published several works (mainly booklets), such as Dyddanion, neu Hanesion Difyrus a Buddiol, 1838; Y Weithred o Fedyddio, 1849; Cerdd Allwyn, er Coffadwriaeth am E. Jones, 'Ieuan Gwynedd …,' 1853; Palestina, 1851; Y Llenor Diwylliedig, sef Llawlyfr yr Ysgrifenydd, yr Areithydd, a'r Bardd, 1862; Mel-Ddyferion
ROBERTS, ELLIS (Eos Llyfnwy, Robin Ddu Eifionydd; 1827 - 1895) prepared for ordination. He was ordained deacon (at S. Asaph) in 1862 and became curate at Rhosymedre, Denbighshire; he was priested in 1863. He became rector of Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr in 1866 and left that living in 1872 for the neighbouring vicariate of Llangwm, Denbighshire, where he died 23 April 1895. Elis Wyn became well known as a poet and a literary adjudicator; he also edited Yr Haul from 1885
ROBERTS, HUGH GORDON (1885 - 1961), surgeon and missionary father's uncle. Frederick Charles Roberts (1862 - 1894), who died young of fever when he was a missionary doctor in Tientsin, was a cousin of his. It is not surprising, therefore, that he changed his mind in the middle of an accountancy course to become a missionary doctor. He graduated M.B., Ch.B., at the University of Liverpool in 1912 and M.D. in 1920. After his marriage to Katharine (died 9 January
ROBERTS, ROBERT DAVID (1820 - 1893), Baptist minister Tydfil, in 1854, and to Soar, Llwynhendy, Carmarthenshire, in 1862. It was as 'Roberts of Llwynhendy' that he became celebrated, for he remained there until his retirement in 1887. He died 15 May 1893. The year before his death he was president of the Union of Welsh Baptists. He was the author of a life of H. W. Jones of Carmarthen, and wrote his own memoirs in the Greal, 1889-92. But it is as one of
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Nefydd; 1813 - 1872), Baptist minister, printer, author, eisteddfodwr, South Wales representative of the British and Foreign Schools Society , daughter of Daniel Jones (1788 - 1862), then minister of the Baptist church in Crosshall Street, Liverpool. Nefydd moved in 1845 to Monmouthshire to become minister of Salem church, Blaenau Gwent (the modern ' Blaina'), where he spent the remainder of his days, busily engaged in a variety of ways. He became prominent as an eisteddfod competitor and as adjudicator. His best-known printed work, a composite
ROBERTSON, HENRY (1816 - 1888), civil engineer and railway pioneer Parliament for Shrewsbury from 1862 to 1865, and again in 1874 and 1880. In 1885 he resigned his seat and was then elected for Merioneth. Later he resigned and seceded from the Liberal party on the introduction of Gladstone's Irish Home Rule Bill. He married, 1846, Elizabeth, daughter of J. W. Dean, a London solicitor. There were four children of the marriage - one son and three daughters. Henry Robertson
ROCYN-JONES, Sir DAVID THOMAS (1862 - 1953), medical officer of health and a public figure Born in Rhymney, Monmouthshire, 16 November 1862, the son of David Rocyn Jones, whose father, Thomas Rocyn Jones was a member of a famous family of bonesetters from Maenordeifi, Pembrokeshire. He was educated at Lewis School, Pengam, the University College of Cardiff and London, and graduated M.B. at the University of Edinburgh in 1897. He began his professional life in general practice at
ROGERS, ROLAND (1847 - 1927), musician Born 14 November 1847 at West Bromwich, Staffordshire, the son of a father who was a good musician and could play the violin. He received a good education and when he was 11 he was appointed to play the harmonium in S. Peter's church, West Bromwich. In 1862, when he was 15, he became organist of S. John's church, Wolverhampton, and, in 1866, of Tattenhall parish church. He was 24 when he became
ROWLAND, DAVID (1795 - 1862), eccentric Calvinistic Methodist minister had married (1822) Jane Jones of Nant-fudr, Trawsfynydd, but after living awhile there and at Faen Filltir in the same parish, he took the holding of Pentre, Llanycil, which he held for the rest of his life - in his absences on his itineraries, his wife and his serving-man managed the farm. His wife died in 1857, and he married again at the end of 1858. He died 24 February 1862, and was buried in
ROWLANDS, DANIEL (1827 - 1917), principal of the Normal College, Bangor devoted himself to the work of his denomination and was moderator of its North Wales Association in 1881 and of its General Assembly in 1890. In 1862 he undertook the editorship of the Traethodydd, an appointment he held for thirty years. He himself wrote numerous and lengthy articles on a variety of subjects - theological, scriptural, social, and political - but it must be confessed that many of these

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