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ROBERTS, Sir ERNEST HANDFORTH GOODMAN (1890 - 1969), judge eighteen times between 1949-55, and deputy chairman of Flintshire Quarter Sessions until 1961. He was a member of the Representative Body of the Church in Wales, 1916-36 and 1947-59, and chancellor of the dioceses of Bangor, 1947-59, and Chelmsford, 1950-69. He published Principles of the law of contract (1923). He was unmarried and died 14 February 1969 at his London home.
ROBERTS, EVAN (1923 - 2007), research chemist and industrialist Evan Roberts was born on 18 November 1923 in Penygroes, Caernarfonshire, the son of William Henry Roberts (1899-1974), a baker, and Mary Jones Roberts (née Smith, 1899-1980), a laundress. He secured a scholarship to Penygroes County School in 1934, and in 1940 he won a State Bursary to study at the University College of North Wales in Bangor, where he graduated with a first class honours degree
ROBERTS, GLYN (1904 - 1962), historian and administrator Born 31 August 1904 at Bangor, Caernarfonshire, son of William and Ann Roberts, and educated at Friars School from 1915 to 1922 when he won a scholarship to the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He studied history under John Edward Lloyd and Arthur Herbert Dodd and graduated with first-class honours in 1925. He undertook research into the parliamentary history of the north Wales boroughs
ROBERTS, GORONWY OWEN (Baron Goronwy-Roberts), (1913 - 1981), Labour politician He was born at Bethesda on 20 September 1913, the son of Edward E. and Amelia Roberts. His father was an elder of the Presbyterian Church of Wales. He was educated at Ogwen Grammar School, Bethesda and the University College of North Wales, Bangor (1st class honours in English, and MA with distinction), and he was then appointed a Fellow of the University of Wales in 1938. While a student at
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1912 - 1969), priest and poet Born 2 March 1912, at Arwenfa, Afonwen, Caernarfonshire, son of Edward and Catherine Roberts. He was educated at the elementary school, Chwilog, the grammar school, Pwllheli and University College of North Wales, Bangor, where he graduated B.A. (2nd-class honours) in Hebrew 1934, M.A. 1936. In 1935-36 he was assistant lecturer in Semitic Studies, University College of N. Wales, Bangor. He began
ROBERTS, GWILYM OWEN (1909 - 1987), author, lecturer, minister and psychologist adults on behalf of the Workers' Educational Association and Bangor University from 1953 until his retirement in the early seventies. He held classes on psychology and religion across North Wales, and he was a popular and charismatic teacher. But he came to national fame, or notoriety even, in Wales mainly through his weekly column in Y Cymro, which was published between 1958 and 1967. He combined his
ROBERTS, GWYNETH PARUL (1910 - 2007), doctor and missionary son, Hywel Griffith Roberts, became a surgeon in south Wales. The family returned to Britain on furlough in 1914 and the parents had to leave the two children with family members in Rhyl. Gwyneth Roberts was educated in Christchurch School and Rhyl County School, and at the University of Wales Colleges of Bangor and Cardiff, and worked as a doctor in hospitals in Cardiff, Wolverhampton, Manchester
ROBERTS, HUW (fl. c. 1555-1619), poet, author, and cleric families, including those of Bodorgan, Henblas, Mellteyrn, Mysoglen, Penhesgyn, Penrhyn, and Plas Iolyn. He composed a cywydd of welcome to Henry Rowland, bishop of Bangor, on the return of the latter from London in 1610, one on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a poem in the form of a dialogue between a cleric and his lover, a number of various englynion which include one to the Virgin Mary, and ymryson
ROBERTS, JOHN (Siôn Robert Lewis; 1731 - 1806), author, almanack-maker, and hymn-writer Born 1731 at Llanaelhaearn, Caernarfonshire, son of Robert Lewis, farmer, for whom he acted as shepherd in his younger days. Being converted by Howel Harris on the occasion of a visit by the latter to the neighbourhood, he began to exhort with the Calvinistic Methodists. He settled at Holyhead about 1760, when he obtained a licence from the bishop of Bangor to open a school. He was summoned
ROBERTS, JOHN (1910 - 1984), preacher, hymnist, poet led him to read and love literature; for the rest of his life the English Romantics and the Welsh lyricists were a rich source of enjoyment for him. Between 1931 and 1937 he was a student at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where he graduated in Welsh and Theology. Before the end of the following year which was spent on the pastoral course at Bala College he was already being invited
ROBERTS, JOHN (1842 - 1908), Calvinistic Methodist missionary was, however, moderator at the Assembly held in 1907. The torrential rainy season of 1908 coincided with a serious cholera epidemic in Cherra. Though far from well, John Roberts fought it relentlessly and without mercy on himself. This and the absence of surgical aid brought about his untimely death on 23 July 1908 after a few days' illness. Mrs. Roberts survived him (she died at Bangor
ROBERTS, JOHN BRYN (1843 - 1931), lawyer and politician Born 8 January 1843 (and christened John Roberts), son of Daniel and Anne Roberts, Bryn Adda, Bangor, was a member of the widespread Roberts family of Castell, Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire, for which see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 381. He was educated at Cheltenham, qualified as solicitor in 1868, but was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1889. In 1885 he became Liberal Member of

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