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ROBERTS, LEWIS JONES (1866 - 1931), inspector of schools, and musician Born 29 May 1866 at Aberaeron, Cardiganshire, the son of Lewis Roberts and his wife, Margaret (Jones). He was educated at S. David's College, Lampeter (B.A.), and Exeter College, Oxford (M.A.); whilst he was at Oxford he was a member of ' Cymdeithas Dafydd ap Gwilym.' He married, 1888, Mary Noel Griffiths, daughter of capt. Griffiths, Old Bank, Aberaeron; there were six sons and three daughters
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1765-6 - 1841) Llwyn'rhudol, pamphleteer (London, 1827), and a phrase book, The Welsh Interpreter (London, 1831, second edition, 1838). He also published (n.d.) Y Byd a Ddaw, a re-issue of a translation by W. E. Jones (Gwilym Cawrdaf) of a work by Isaac Watts, which had appeared in 1829, and Y Ffordd i Gaffael Cyfoeth neu Rhisiart Druan (London, 1839), which is based on Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard. It is unlikely that he was the Thomas
ROBERTS, THOMAS (Scorpion; 1816 - 1887), Independent minister when he was only 12 years of age. He was, for a time, a blacksmith's apprentice. In 1837 Gwilym Hiraethog (William Rees) became minister of the church at Swan Lane, Denbigh, and discovered that Scorpion had the necessary qualifications for the ministry. That summer Scorpion began to preach. In 1839 he went to the Rev. D. W. Jones of Holywell to be coached before entering college. In December 1841, as
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1884 - 1960), educationalist and scholar based on many MS copies, but the editor did not attempt to produce a definitive text or to list variant readings. This was a busy time for Thomas Roberts, for there also appeared in 1914 Cywyddau Dafydd ap Gwilym a'i Gyfoeswyr, in which he collaborated with Ifor Williams, being responsible for the introductions to the works of the contemporaries - Gruffudd ab Adda, Madog Benfras, Gruffudd Gryg and
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Eryri; 1844 - 1895?), poet and editor in the 1880s a volume of the works of Mary Davies (1846 - 1882), the Portmadoc poetess, under the title Blodeu Eifion, sef Gwaith Barddonol Mair Eifion. Three of his own poems, which he had submitted in the competition for the chair at the national eisteddfod in 1884, 1887, and 1894 respectively, were published, viz., Awdl ar Gwilym Hiraethog, 1884; Y Frenhines Victoria, 1887; and Hunan Aberth
ROBERTS, WILLIAM HENRY (1907 - 1982), actor, broadcaster teacher at Newborough school in 1931 where he spent the rest of his life, as teacher and then headmaster of the school. Broadcasting in Welsh began from Bryn Meirion Bangor in 1935 and W. H. Roberts took part in very many feature programmes produced by Sam Jones, Ifan O. Williams, Dafydd Gruffydd and John Gwilym Jones. He won the champion elocution prize at the Cardiff National Eisteddfod in 1937 and
ROBERTS, WILLIAM JOHN (Gwilym Cowlyd; 1828 - 1904), poet, printer, bookseller, bibliophile, and eccentric Born at Trefriw, Caernarfonshire in 1828, the son of John Roberts, Tyddyn Gwilym. He was a nephew of Ieuan Glan Geirionydd. He founded the Gorsedd of Geirionydd (1863), in opposition to the established Gorsedd of the Bards, which he denounced as heretical. Under his presidency as 'Chief Bard Positive,' Arwest Glan Geirionydd, a counter-eisteddfod, with its own gorsedd, was held annually near lake
ROBERTS, WILLIAM JOHN (1904 - 1967), Methodist minister and ecumenist ministry, following the path already taken by two of his uncles, Thomas Gwilym Roberts and Evan Roberts. After spending a year at Menai Bridge in the Beaumaris circuit, he entered Handsworth Wesleyan Theological College from where he graduated in 1930 with the BA degree of the University of Birmingham. His first post-graduation ministry was at Bethel chapel, Llanberis where he served for a year. However
ROBERTS, WILLIAM RHYS (1858 - 1929), professor of Greek Born 11 July 1858 at Wimbledon, son of the Rev. J. Gwilym Roberts. He was educated at the City of London School and King's College, Cambridge, where he won some of the principal university prizes in classics, and where he was a Fellow, 1882-8. He was professor of Greek at University College, Bangor, 1884-1904, and professor of classics in the University of Leeds, 1904-22. He was considered an
ROWLANDS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Lleyn; 1802 - 1865), Wesleyan minister, and bibliographer as supernumerary and partly in order to complete and publish (if possible) his greatest work. He died 21 March 1865, and was buried at Caerau, near Llanidloes. Gwilym Lleyn was still a young man when he began to interest himself in the collection and listing of books in Welsh and books relating to Wales. His work as a circuit minister gave a searcher such as he was a wonderful opportunity to
SAMWELL, DAVID (1751 - 1798), naval surgeon and poet to reveal a headstrong and intolerant nature. He assisted in the task of collecting for publication the poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym and of Huw Morys. A portrait of Samwell is reproduced in the first article noted below.
SEFNYN (fl. second half of the 14th century), poet He sang the praises of Tudur ap Goronwy of Trecastell and Penmynydd (died 1367), and an elegiac awdl on his fellow Anglesey poet, Iorwerth ab y Cyriog, who fl. around 1360. He also sang the praises of the wives of his patrons, such as Angharad, ' Dafydd's spouse.' His work has survived only in a confused state in the manuscripts. He was probably the father of the poet Gwilym ap Sefnyn.

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