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ROBERTS, JOHN (Minimus; 1808 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author shipping company, he became, in 1840, the unpaid secretary of the newly-formed C.M. Foreign Missions Society (see Thomas Jones, 1810 - 1849); from 1861 till his wife's death he lived near Mold. In 1866 his connection with the C.M. Missions was severed, and he removed to Edinburgh, as secretary of the 'Scottish Sabbath Observance Society'. He died there 6 January 1880, and was buried in S. James's
ROBERTS, JOHN (1842 - 1908), Calvinistic Methodist missionary study, mainly medical, in Edinburgh, and on 6 January 1871 was ordained at Salem, Dolgelley. On 31 May of that year he married Sidney Margaret, (1850-1931), daughter of Thomas Jones (Glan Alun), a true fellow-worker. They sailed for India on 27 September 1871, settling first in Shella, but moving to Cherrapoongee five years later. As a pioneer Roberts undertook long and dangerous journeys to preach
ROBERTS, JOHN (Ieuan Gwyllt; 1822 - 1877), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and musician a new era of Welsh congregational singing. To the original work he added an atodiad (supplement), and, in 1870, an ychwanegiad (appendix). He arranged and harmonized a large number of hymn-tunes and psalms and himself composed some two dozen including the very famous tune 'Moab.' At this time he was travelling much throughout Wales to lecture on congregational music. In 1859 he and Thomas Levi
ROBERTS, JOHN (1807 - 1876), musician Born 30 March 1807 at Henllan, near Denbigh; the son of Aaron and Jane Roberts. He attended the village school until he was 13 and, two years later, began to receive instruction from Thomas Jones, Congregational minister, Denbigh. He was taught music by Thomas Daniel, Henllan; he also studied books on music. He collected a large number of hymn-tunes that were used at times of religious revival or
ROBERTS, JOHN ASKEW (1826 - 1884), antiquary, journalist, and author Born 27 March 1826 at Oswestry, son of Samuel Roberts, bookseller. In 1848 he was one of the contributors to Oswald's Well, an Oswestry magazine, which was succeeded in 1849 by the Oswestry Advertiser, a monthly journal which afterwards became a weekly newspaper, and with which the founder was connected for the next twenty years. Selling the copyright and retiring from active participation in the
ROBERTS, JOHN HENRY (Pencerdd Gwynedd; 1848 - 1924), musician ). Other hymnals with which he was connected were Llyfr Hymnau a Thonau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, 1897, Llawlyfr Moliant yr Ysgol Sul, 1897 (with W. T. Samuel), Llyfr Tonau y Methodistiaid Wesleyaidd, 1904 (with D. Emlyn Evans and Wilfred Jones). He was a contributor to Y Cerddor. He died 6 August 1924 and was buried in Smithdown Road cemetery, Liverpool.
ROBERTS, JOHN JOHN (Iolo Caernarfon; 1840 - 1914), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and prose-writer biography (1912) of Owen Thomas.
ROBERTS, JOHN PRICE (1854 - 1905), Wesleyan minister and author to Yr Eurgrawn, and something of a poet - his elegy on Joseph Thomas won esteem. He published (1903) a (Welsh) biography of Hugh Price Hughes, and was one of the authors of the biography of John Evans (1840 - 1897) of Eglwys-bach.
ROBERTS, MICHAEL HILARY ADAIR (1927 - 1983), Conservative politician , the Cardiff analysts and chemical consultants. He married Mrs Eileen Jean Evans, the daughter of C. H. Billing. They had two sons and a daughter; the daughter predeceased her father. They lived at Ashgrove Farm, Whitchurch in Cardiff. Roberts died on 10 February 1983 after having collapsed suddenly at the dispatch box of the House of Commons while replying during a debate on Welsh affairs. He had
ROBERTS, MORRIS (bu farw c. 1723), poet, and carpenter a native of Tynllidiart, Llanuwchllyn, Meironnydd, who later lived at Bala. He was a Congregationalist. His daughter married John Evans of Bala, Methodist exhorter (1723 - 1817). Examples of his poetry, in strict and free metres, are found in manuscript; they include cywyddau, one on Bala Lake, and another on Judgement Day, and englynion composed to each other by Richard John Jenkin and himself
ROBERTS, MORRIS (1799 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and later Independent minister was buried in Fairchild Corner cemetery, Remsen. He was a notable preacher. He visited Wales in 1866 and was given quite a warm welcome, although his name was under a cloud in some quarters because he had closed his chapel against Samuel Roberts of Llanbryn-mair, with whose opinions on slavery and war he disagreed.
ROBERTS, PETER (fl. 1578-1646), attorney and chronicler 1607 down to 1646, and was printed in 1883 by D. R. Thomas, on whose preface the present note has been based.

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