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ROBERTS, JOHN (Siôn Robert Lewis; 1731 - 1806), author, almanack-maker, and hymn-writer 1761 and continued to publish for the next forty-four years. After his death his son Robert Roberts (1777 - 1836) published the almanacks until 1837. In 1766 he married Margaret Jones, Bodedern, Anglesey, by whom he had six children. He died 19 September 1806.
ROBERTS, JOHN (1910 - 1984), preacher, hymnist, poet Born 2 June 1910 in Llanfachraeth, Anglesey, only son of William Roberts, farm-worker, and his wife Elizabeth, who soon moved to Glan-yr-afon in Llanfwrog. William Roberts was brought up as a Congregationalist, and his wife was an Anglican, but for some unknown reason they joined the Calvinistic Methodists, and it was with them that the son was nurtured. He went to Ffrwd Win School (but not until
ROBERTS, LEWIS (1596 - 1640), merchant and writer on economics 1536, the monopoly of the Englishry at Beaumaris (already undermined, as the preceding paragraph has indicated) had totally disappeared; Gabriel Roberts was one of the chief merchants there, if not indeed the chief. Unlike his English forbears, the Johnsons, he took no part in oversea trading, but confined himself to purchasing wares at Chester and distributing them in Anglesey. He was not only a
ROBERTS, MICHAEL (bu farw 1679), principal of Jesus College, Oxford son of Evan Roberts and Alice his wife, of Llanffinan parish in Anglesey; the date of his birth is uncertain. He spent some time at Caius College, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1620, M.A. in 1623; he was incorporated at Oxford and Cambridge, both in 1624. He became Fellow of Jesus in Oxford in 1625 - there he remained till 1638, when he lost his place because
ROBERTS, OWEN OWEN (1793 - 1866), physician and social reformer study of cholera when this disease swept over Wales in 1830. He established a health board at Caernarvon and when the epidemic broke out afresh in 1848, published a pamphlet, A Few Plain, Practical Hints on Cholera, its Causes, Prevention, and Treatment. He was the originator of the movement to set up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey at Bangor in 1844, and it was he, too, who first
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1834 - 1885), cleric and scholar Born 12 November 1834, son of Owen Roberts and Mary his wife, of Hafod Bach, Llanddewi, Llangernyw, Denbighshire. He went to Bala to Lewis Edwards for two years, 1847-9, and then for two years more was a private tutor in Anglesey before being admitted to the training college at Caernarvon. He obtained his certificate there, and taught at Castle Caereinion and Llanllechid (1853), Amlwch, and
ROBERTS, ROBERT ALUN (1894 - 1969), Professor of Agricultural Botany at University College, Bangor, and a naturalist Caernarfon. In recognition of his contribution to agriculture he received a C.B.E. in 1962. He was to be awarded an honorary D.Litt. in July 1969 but died in the Caernarfon and Anglesey Hospital on 19 May 1969. His ashes were scattered on the slopes of the Cymffyrch, a stone's throw from his old home. He was the author of numerous books, e.g. Y tir a'i gynnyrch; Hafodydd brithion; Welsh Homespun; Y
ROBERTS, ROBERT DAVID (1820 - 1893), Baptist minister monthly meeting in Christmas Evans's old territory in Llŷn, but returned to Sardis where he and his cousin were ordained in 1844. The two ministered jointly to the churches in the neighbourhood for some years. Early in 1848 R. D. Roberts went to Pontlyfni and Llanaelhaearn but, before the end of the year, had moved on to Llanfachraeth and Llanddeusant, Anglesey. He moved again, to Tabernacle, Merthyr
ROBERTS, IEUAN WYN PRITCHARD (1930 - 2013), journalist and politician Wyn Roberts was born on 10 July 1930 in Llansadwrn, Anglesey, the son of the Reverend Evan Roberts and his wife Margaret (née Jones). His father was a Methodist minister at Capel Penucheldref and writer of a weekly column in Y Goleuad. His mother was a teacher at the local school, the schoolhouse also being the Roberts family residence. He attended Beaumaris County School until he won a
ROBERTS, THOMAS (bu farw c. 1775), first Baptist convert in Anglesey baptized and joined the Wrexham Baptist church, though he continued to reside in Anglesey. He died c. 1775, without seeing the addition of a single convert to the Baptist cause in the island, and was buried at Rhos-y-meirch. A treatise entitled Traethawd am Enaid ac Yspryd yn ôl yr Ysgrythyr, published in 1785, is ascribed to him.
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (1585 - 1665), bishop of Bangor -dean of Wells, 1619-38. Through the influence of Laud, whose ecclesiastical views he shared, he was elected to the see of Bangor in 1637, and allowed to hold with it the livings of Llandyrnog and Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch, Denbighshire, and the archdeaconries of Bangor and Anglesey. For subscribing the 'non-resistance' canons and clerical benevolence in the convocation of May 1640, he was impeached
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (1809 - 1887), Calvinistic Methodist minister, editor, and author Born 25 September 1809 at Llannerch-y-medd, Anglesey. He was educated under John Richards, who held the living of Llannerch-y-medd, and at a school kept at Holyhead by William Griffith (1801 - 1881), Congregational minister. He began to preach in 1829 at Hyfrydle chapel, Holyhead. He then went to Dublin for a further course of education; there he gathered together some of the Welsh -speaking

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