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ROBERTS, CADWALADR (bu farw 1708/9), poet harp of Wiliam Llwyd, Llangedwyn, for Siôn Prys is of social interest (Cwrtmawr MS 128A (122)). 'Llyfr Cadwaladr Roberts, 1676' (Cwrtmawr MS 227B), is his anthology of poetry by some of his contemporaries, including Huw Morys and Edward Morris. The tunes to which he wrote are frequently noted in the manuscripts. He was a very mediocre poet, and his poetry contains a profusion of colloquial forms. His
ROBERTS, HUW (fl. c. 1555-1619), poet, author, and cleric (controversy) poems addressed to Gruffudd Llwyd, and also to Llywelyn Siôn of Glamorgan. His prose work, The day of Hearing: or six lectures upon the latter part of the third Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews …, was published in London in 1600.
ROBERTS, JOHN (1842 - 1908), Calvinistic Methodist missionary in the stone stool on which he sat to split slates. The Revival of 1859 influenced him deeply and, at the age of 21, he began to preach, having been a pupil, since 1860, of the British school at Garnedd Wen under Humphrey Owen. He entered Bala Calvinistic Methodist College in 1866 and four years later was accepted as a candidate for the mission field in Assam. He then pursued a short course of
ROBERTS, LEWIS (1596 - 1640), merchant and writer on economics His family (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 96) is an interesting example of Welsh infiltration into the English boroughs of north-west Wales. Its first member known to us is a Gruffydd Llwyd (died 1375), who lived in the bond vill of Penhwnllys in Dindaethwy commote, i.e. on land which had once belonged to the house of Ednyfed Fychan - by 1413 these lands were in the possession of Gwilym Gruffydd of
ROBERTS, ROBERT (Bob Tai'r Felin; 1870 - 1951), folk singer he was winner of the folk song competition. About this period ' Parti Tai'r Felin ' was formed, its members being Robert Lloyd ('Llwyd o'r Bryn'), John Thomas and his daughter, Lizzie Jane, Bob Roberts and his daughter, Harriet; this popular party entertained audiences throughout Wales, and also parts of England. From 1944 onward, he became the idol of the nation due to the impact he made when he
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1840 - 1871), musician Born 24 May 1840 at Tanysgafell, Bethesda, Caernarfonshire. He was 12 when his father died and he began to work in a quarry. He was taught the rudiments of music by Owen Humphrey Davies (Eos Llechid). Henry Samuel Hayden then gave him some instruction and the boy was admitted, when he was 14, to the training college at Caernarvon where Hayden taught; he afterwards followed Hayden in his post. In
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1835 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister of the North Wales Home Mission, 1889-99, his annual report being published as an appendix to the Drysorfa. He was an excellent writer, a powerful preacher, and a keen student of the works of Morgan Llwyd. He died at Bangor, 24 November 1899.
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1884 - 1960), educationalist and scholar Llywelyn Goch - and for the texts of their poems. In the second edition, which appeared in 1935, Thomas Roberts added some poems and revised the introductions. In 1925 he took part in another joint effort, this time with Henry Lewis and Ifor Williams, to produce Cywyddau Iolo Goch ac eraill, in which Thomas Roberts dealt with Gruffudd Llwyd and Ieuan ap Rhydderch. The introductions were amplified and the
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Nefydd; 1813 - 1872), Baptist minister, printer, author, eisteddfodwr, South Wales representative of the British and Foreign Schools Society Born 8 March 1813 in Bryngoleu, in the parish of Llanefydd, Denbighshire, son of Robert Roberts, shoemaker, and Anne his wife (see NLW MS 7000E for the names of some of the ancestors of the parents). He received but little education in his boyhood. He was taught his father's craft, and after a while went to Llanddulas to work for one Humphrey Jones. He was baptised in 1832 by John Evans
teulu ROBINSON Conway, Monachdy, Gwersyllt, , 1574) and the archdeaconry of Merioneth (exchanged for that of Anglesey, 1573); his kinsman and fellow-Cantrabrigian Humphrey Robinson succeeded him in Merioneth, having previously been admitted by him to the rectory of Llanengan (1570) before he was either priest or graduate, and re-admitted both there (1573) and at Llanbedrog (1572) after graduation (1571) and ordination (1572). On the other hand
ROGERS, JOHN (bu farw 1738), bookseller and printer Welsh books: Egwyddorion y Grefydd Gristianogawl and Godidawgrwydd Rhinwedd, and in 1708 he printed for the Company of Stationers, London, an almanack (for 1709) called Cennad oddiwrth y Ser …, and, in 1714, Dirgelwch …, Morgan Llwyd o Wynedd's best-known work. J. H. Davies (Bibliog. of Welsh Ballads) records only one Welsh ballad as printed by Rogers. Rogers continued to print until 1729, if not
ROGERS, OWEN (c.1532 - c.1570), printer and bookseller Owen Rogers was made free of the Stationers' Company of London on 8 October 1555. His origins are unknown, but his wife Rose was the daughter of David Lloid of 'Biteffery' (Bodfari), he had two stepbrothers named Jones, a lodger named Lewis Evans who wrote a 'new year's gift' and at least one of the ballads he printed, and his last two apprentices were Humphrey Powell of 'llodrod' (Lledrod?) and

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