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ROBERT ap RHYS Sir , chaplain to the Courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII - gweler PRICE
ROBERT (ab) IFAN (fl. c. 1572-1603), poet Of a good family at Brynsiencyn, Anglesey. His genealogy is given in full in Peniarth MS 158 at the end of the interesting copy which he prepared for his own use (in May 1587) of the contents of the bardic grammars, etc.; there he states that his mother's name was Marged, daughter of Huw ap Rhys of Fysoglen (Maesoglan), and explains how his father, Ifan ap Wiliam, came to own land in Anglesey
ROBERT, GRUFFYDD (c. 1527 - 1598), priest, grammarian and poet Rhys of Llanddeiniolen, a clergyman. Catrin was an elder relative of Wiliam Cynwal; she was also a staunch recusant, and poems on religious themes are attributed to her. It is certainly the case that during his lifetime, Gruffydd Robert was believed in Milan to be descended from the nobility. He was one of seven children, whose names are not given; it is noted that Morys Clynnog was his uncle. Robert
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, EDWYN CYNRIG (1837 - 1893), pioneer in Patagonia advantage of his visit to publish the first of his planned series of fifteen volumes on the history of the Welsh Settlement. Although it was a rushed project, as evidenced by its lack of planning and almost non-existing editing, it is the first ever account of a much earlier ambitious proposal by Morgan John Rhys to establish a self-governing Welsh language state in the USA (1798). Sadly, no further
ROBERTS, EVELYN BEATRICE (Lynette) (1909 - 1995), poet and prose writer and opened her own florist's shop, Bruska. Lynette was briefly engaged to the racing driver and soldier Merlin Minshall, but broke off the engagement when she met the Welsh poet, editor and writer Keidrych Rhys (William Ronald Rees Jones, 1915-1987) at a Poetry London event in 1939. The two married on 4 October 1939 in Llansteffan, with fellow Welsh poet Dylan Thomas as best man. Following their
ROBERTS, GEORGE (1769 - 1853), settler and Independent minister in U.S.A. . They landed at Philadelphia on 26 October, remained there till September 1796, and then 'wandered on foot' till 19 November, when George and his family settled in the ' Cambria County ', founded by M. J. Rhys. There, Roberts found it for several years impossible to extricate himself from debt. But in 1807 he was appointed one of the two salaried justices of the county, and in 1808 a remunerative land
ROBERTS, PETER (fl. 1578-1646), attorney and chronicler Born 2 February 1577/1578, son of Robert ap Hywel ap Rhys, of Bron-yr-wylfa, near S. Asaph, and his wife Agnes - a Griffith of Gwern-eigron; he probably went to S. Asaph cathedral school. By 1599 he was notary public at S. Asaph, and in 1624 (30 June) he was appointed proctor in the bishop's court. In 1606 he married Jane, one of the daughters of David ap Lewis ap Gronw, of Meiriadog; and he
ROBERTS, RICHARD (GWYLFA; 1871 - 1935), Congregational minister, poet and prose-writer was a popular preacher, and a diligent writer; a frequent contributor to the periodical press, he was editor of Y Diwygiwr for 1906, one of the editors of Y Dysgedydd, 1912-14, and sole editor of it in 1931-3. In 1932 he edited the works of Rhys J. Huws. He was on two occasions (Ffestiniog, 1898, and Cardiff, 1899) 'crowned' at the national eisteddfod, and was runner-up for the 'crown' at Swansea
ROBERTS, IEUAN WYN PRITCHARD (1930 - 2013), journalist and politician on programmes such as Camau Cyntaf and Croeso Christine. TWW, however, lost its license to Harlech (HTV) in 1968, and Roberts's distaste for the switch led him to pursue an alternative career in politics. He married Enid Grace Williams in 1956, and they had three sons, Geraint, Rhys (d. 2004) and Huw. In 1970 Roberts was elected MP for the seat of Conwy under the Conservative Party, a choice which
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 RHYS (1858 - 1929), professor of Greek

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