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ROBERTS, ARTHUR RHYS (1872 - 1920), solicitor Arthur Rhys Roberts was born on 27 April 1872 at 20 Ogwen Terrace, Bethesda, the only child of the Rev. Thomas Roberts, minister of Jerusalem chapel (Calvinistic Methodists), and his wife Winifred, herself the child of a Methodist minister, the Rev. Rees Jones (Brynmenai, y Felinheli). He was sent, for a secondary education, to the Salop School, Oswestry, a non-denominational boarding school
ROBERTS, DAVID (Dewi Ogwen; 1818 - 1897), Independent minister Born 19 April 1818 at Bangor, son of the Rev. Dafydd Roberts, a Calvinistic Methodist preacher and superintendent of one of Charles of Bala's schools; his mother was of the same lineage as John Jones of Tal-y-sarn and Cadwaladr Owen of Dolwyddelan. He was first educated in a private school in the town and later in Dr. Arthur Jones's school. In 1833 he was apprenticed as a printer in the office of
ROBERTS, EVELYN BEATRICE (Lynette) (1909 - 1995), poet and prose writer Lynette Roberts was born on 4 July 1909 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the first of four children of Cecil Arthur Roberts (d. 1949), a railway engineer, and his wife Ruby (née Garbutt, d. 1923). Her baptismal names were Evelyn Beatrice, but she was known as Lynette by her family, and in later life used the name Lynette Roberts for all her published work. She had two sisters, Winifred and Rosemary
ROBERTS, GLYN (1904 - 1962), historian and administrator Born 31 August 1904 at Bangor, Caernarfonshire, son of William and Ann Roberts, and educated at Friars School from 1915 to 1922 when he won a scholarship to the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He studied history under John Edward Lloyd and Arthur Herbert Dodd and graduated with first-class honours in 1925. He undertook research into the parliamentary history of the north Wales boroughs
ROBERTS, GOMER MORGAN (1904 - 1993), minister (CM), historian, author and hymnwriter Theological College of his denomination in Aberystwyth, 1926-9, where he pursued the Ordinary Course. His literary work continued and he won the Chair at the Inter-College Eisteddfod held in Cardiff, 1928, for his ode 'Ogof Arthur'. His mother died, February 1929, and was buried at Caersalem, Ty-croes. In the Autumn he began the Pastoralia course at Bala College and in 1930 accepted a call to be minister of
ROBERTS, LEWIS (1596 - 1640), merchant and writer on economics burgess but (before 1612) a ' capital burgess.' He amassed great wealth, and then took the next step, so common among prosperous merchants of his day - becoming a landed man. He had acquired lands in Dindaethwy and when, in 1605, lord Herbert sold his mother's lands in that commote, Roberts combined with another merchant named Arthur (it would seem from Cal. Wynn Papers, 1160, that they were cousins) to
ROBERTS, MICHAEL HILARY ADAIR (1927 - 1983), Conservative politician was also a coach to the Welsh Rugby Union, a member of the Bow Group and president of the Cardiff branch of the NUT. He was a consultant to the NUT, 1970-79, and earlier in his career he had served on the National Youth Advisory Committee. Roberts stood as the Conservative candidate in the Aberdare by-election in 1954 against Arthur Probert, and in the Cardiff South East constituency in the general
ROBERTS, RICHARD ARTHUR (1851 - 1943), archivist and editor
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1835 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister was at Colwyn, where he remained for two and a half years. In January 1867 he was put in charge of the churches of Jerusalem (Bethesda) and Ty'n-y-maes, and was ordained in June the same year. In 1870 he married Winifred, the daughter of the Rev. Rees Jones of Port Dinorwic; they had one son, Arthur Rhys, solicitor, who died young. He was moderator of the North Wales Assembly in 1893, and secretary
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (1585 - 1665), bishop of Bangor by the Commons, with the bishops of S. Asaph, Llandaff, and nine others, 4 August 1641, Arthur Trevor (see Trevor family of Brynkynallt) being assigned as one of their counsel (16 November); but through delaying tactics and pressure of other business the case fizzled out in December. During the Civil War he sheltered at Bangor the violently royalist bishop of Rochester, John Warner. Deprived of his
ROWLANDS, CEINWEN (1905 - 1983), singer generation, whose services in concerts and broadcasts were in great demand. She sang many times in national eisteddfod concerts, including the first performance of Mendelssohn's 'Hymn of Praise' in Welsh at the Bangor national eisteddfod in 1943. She recorded several Welsh items for Decca, including songs by Meirion Williams, D. Vaughan Thomas, and Mansel Thomas. In 1946 she married Arthur Walter, of Welsh
ROWLANDS, ROBERT PUGH (1874 - 1933), chief surgeon of Guy's Hospital , in October 1892. He had an exceptionally brilliant career there. In his first year he won the Arthur Durham prize, the Michael Harris prize for anatomy in 1894 and the first prize in 1895 and 1896. The following year he was awarded the Treasurer gold medal for surgery and medicine. After further training as a house surgeon in the hospital he resolved to obtain surgical qualifications. After

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