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ROBERTS, GEORGE (1769 - 1853), settler and Independent minister in U.S.A. connections, and a long account of his early religious experiences. Up to the age of 17, he remained at the loom with his father, but afterwards served on farms at Carno and Llanbryn-mair. In May 1795 he married Jane Edwards, of Llanerfyl, and in July, in company with Ezekiel Hughes and others, emigrated to America - their troubles with press-gangs and with storms at sea are recounted in the autobiography
ROBERTS, GLYN (1904 - 1962), historian and administrator and, in great measure, this accounted for his success as a teacher and administrator. He understood the motives of his fellow man better than most and detested over-respectability and affectation. Full of humour and a lover of amusing tales and ready witticisms he was fundamentally a likeable, gracious and kindly man. Married twice (1): Mary Davida Alwynne Hughes on 6 September 1933, and after her
ROBERTS, GOMER MORGAN (1904 - 1993), minister (CM), historian, author and hymnwriter local poets. He also joined an Economics class at Capel Hendre and his teacher, Tom Hughes Griffiths, encouraged him to apply for a W.E.A. Entrance Scholarship, worth £60, to Fircroft College, Bournville, Birmingham, an application which was successful. About the same time, Gosen was urging him to offer himself as a candidate for the ministry. Among the poets attending the Welsh class was David Rees
ROBERTS, GORONWY OWEN (Baron Goronwy-Roberts), (1913 - 1981), Labour politician candidate by a margin of more than 10,000 votes, and he continued to represent the division until the election of February 1974, when he was unexpectedly defeated by Dafydd Wigley (Plaid Cymru). He had served as an MP for twenty-nine years continuously, and his defeat vexed him deeply. He was chairman of Hughes a'i Fab, publishers, Wrexham, 1955-59, and a member of the Courts of the National Library, the
ROBERTS, GWEN REES (1916 - 2002), missionary and teacher onwards through the jungle and along poor roads to Aizawl. They were to settle there, Gwen sharing a bungalow with Katie Hughes (Pi Zaii; 1889-1963), who became a firm friend and supporter. She also got to know the doctor Gwyneth Parul Roberts, who performed surgery to remove her appendix six months after her arrival. The work before her was extremely varied and challenging. Her main duty was to succeed
ROBERTS, JOHN (1879 - 1959), minister (Presb.) and historian as minister at Aberdovey (1903-06), David St., Liverpool (1906-13), and Pembroke Tce., Cardiff (1913-38). He was called to serve as secretary of the Central Fund of the South Wales Association in 1938; ten years later the funds of North and South Wales were combined and he became the first secretary of the united Fund of the Presbyterian Church of Wales. In 1903 he married Annie Jones Hughes
ROBERTS, JOHN (Siôn Robert Lewis; 1731 - 1806), author, almanack-maker, and hymn-writer . Gouge and S. Hughes, 1677; Hymnau a Chaniadau, 1764; Rhyfyddeg neu Arithmetic, 1768, the first arithmetic book in Welsh; Geirlyfr Ysgrythurol, 1773, the first Welsh scriptural dictionary; Caniadau Preswylwyr y Llwch, 1778; Yr Athrofa Rad, 1788. While the books that Roberts wrote, compiled, and issued were good and valuable, his fame rests rather on his 'Almanacks,' which he commenced to issue about
ROBERTS, JOHN (Ieuan Gwyllt; 1822 - 1877), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and musician British school which, however, he left after nine months to become clerk to Messrs. Hughes and Roberts, solicitors; he stayed in that post for nearly seven years. In 1852 he became assistant editor of Yr Amserau, a Liverpool Welsh newspaper of which William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) was editor; this connection was maintained until 1858. On 15 June 1856 he preached his first sermon - at Runcorn. In 1858 he
ROBERTS, JOHN HERBERT (BARON CLWYD of ABERGELE), (1863 - 1955), politician Born at 61 Hope Street, Liverpool, 8 August 1863, the son of John Roberts, Liverpool and Bryngwenallt, Abergele (M.P. for the Flint Borough, 1878-92), and his wife Catherine Tudor, daughter of John Hughes (1796 - 1860) minister (CM), Liverpool. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1884 and M.A. in 1888. He published A world tour after spending a year (1884-85
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 (bu farw 1679), principal of Jesus College, Oxford Oxonienses; and he was sharply critical of the 1672 edition of the New Testament, because Stephen Hughes and his coadjutors had left out the Book of Common Prayer.
ROBERTS, PETER (1760 - 1819), cleric, Biblical scholar and antiquary ), he published A Sketch of the Early History of the Cymry (700 B.C.-A.D. 500), 1803; The Chronicles of the Kings of Britain, 1811; and his well-known Cambrian Popular Antiquities, 1815 (with coloured plates), a Welsh version was published at Carmarthen in 1823, with illustrations by Hugh Hughes (1790 - 1863).

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