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ROBERTS, GRIFFITH (1735 - 1808), physician at Dolgelley, antiquary, and collector of manuscripts as ' Hen Dŷ'r Doctor ' (Plas Isa) and now forming part of the Golden Lion hotel. At Dolgelley he had access to the Hengwrt manuscripts (in Welsh and other languages) which, in his day, were still at Hengwrt. Moreover, he himself owned several manuscripts, many of which now form part of the Hengwrt-Peniarth collection in N.L.W.; for particulars, with references also to other Welsh manuscripts, which
ROBERTS, GWILYM OWEN (1909 - 1987), author, lecturer, minister and psychologist sixties. Roberts's column was certainly a key influence on his important pamphlet Yr Argyfwng Gwacter Ystyr. The pamphlet shares the same central argument as articles by Roberts from the period which preceded it, namely that the language of religion in Wales, above all else, was now meaningless and irrelevant to the vast majority. Roberts believed that meaning could be restored to modern life through
ROBERTS, GWYNETH PARUL (1910 - 2007), doctor and missionary and Craig y Nos in the Swansea Valley. She also studied at the London School of Tropical Medicine after deciding to follow in her parents' footsteps. She gained the degrees of BSc, MB and BCh. She was accepted into the mission of the Presbyterian Church of Wales in June 1938, and arrived at Durtlang Welsh Missionary Hospital on the outskirts of the town of Aizawl, the capital of Lushai state (now
ROBERTS, JOHN (1576 - 1610), Benedictine monk and martyr Born at Trawsfynydd in 1576. It is now believed, on the authority of Peniarth MS 287, that his father was Robert, one of the sons of Ellis ap William ap Gruffydd of Rhiwgoch, and that he was, therefore, a cousin of Robert Lloyd of Rhiwgoch, Member of Parliament for Merionethshire, 1586-7. He was brought up and educated as a Protestant and was admitted to S. John's College, Oxford, 26 February
ROBERTS, JOHN (1767 - 1834), Independent minister and theologian (London) agreed that he should be trained at their Academy free of charge, and he was duly admitted. In 1792 the Academy, now in charge of Jenkin Lewis, was moved to Wrexham where Roberts spent three years. Before finishing his course he was invited to assist Richard Tibbott at Llanbryn-mair; he began his work there January 1795 and was ordained 25 August 1796. On Tibbott's death he was elected in March
ROBERTS, JOHN ASKEW (1826 - 1884), antiquary, journalist, and author founded (1860) The Merionethshire Standard, now known as The Cambrian News. He was also joint-editor, with Edward Woodall, of The Pictorial Itinerary, an Illustrated Guide to the Railways and Coach-Roads of North Wales (Oswestry, 1882). He died 10 December 1884.
ROBERTS, JOHN HENRY (Pencerdd Gwynedd; 1848 - 1924), musician Afradlon') in an eisteddfod held at Chester. When he was 20 he became a clerk at Bryneglwys quarry, Abergynolwyn, Meironnydd; here he formed a choir to take part in the Harlech musical festival of 1868. As he was now coming into prominence as an accompanist, a group of Abergynolwyn people and the Harlech festival committee arranged for him to get tuition in music. He went to Gloucester where he was
ROBERTS, MORRIS (1799 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and later Independent minister to Remsen in 1833 where he not only preached regularly in a number of churches but also had a farm. Here again he came into collision, this time with some of the elders, on questions of church discipline and doctrine, and he was excommunicated. He now joined the Independents, among whom he played a very prominent part in the county of Oneida until his retirement in 1871. He died 30 June 1878, and
ROBERTS, SAMUEL (S.R.; 1800 - 1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer American journal Y Drych. He experienced considerable physical danger, and a severe illness in October-November 1864. Three years later he returned to Wales, and settled at Conway. In March 1868 he received a public testimonial of £1,245, subscribed by some 14,000 people. He paid a brief visit to America in 1870 to negotiate the sale of his property. By now most of the reforms for which he had pressed
ROBERTS, THOMAS OSBORNE (1879 - 1948), musician Castle estate, and it was at Chirk that he began to study music and to learn to play the piano. He had begun to be in demand as an accompanist before he moved, in 1902, to Llandudno where he became organist of the English (B) chapel. He had by now decided to devote himself entirely to music. He wrote songs ('Y Mab Afradlon ' and ' Good Shepherd') and a piece for male voice choirs ('Brwydr y Baltic
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Nefydd; 1813 - 1872), Baptist minister, printer, author, eisteddfodwr, South Wales representative of the British and Foreign Schools Society was Baptist minister at Llanefydd when Nefydd was a young boy) and others. Amongst the contents of the two groups are several hundred letters from ministers and laymen. Part of this composite collection came into the hands of J. Spinther James, and was used by him when he was writing his Hanes y Bedyddwyr; by now the Spinther collection (which was bought by principal J. H. Davies) and the main
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (1784 - 1864), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 19 September 1784 at Aberach, Llaneilian, Anglesey. As a child he was unable to go to school and was only 10 years of age when he began work at the Parys copper mine. Later he went to work with one David Roberts of Amlwch who, in due course, sent him, now a strong and responsible young man, to Llannerch-y-medd as bailiff of some land which he owned there. The spiritual awakening he

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