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ROBERTS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1912 - 1969), priest and poet service to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the translation of the New Testament into Welsh, at Gyffin, the birthplace of Bishop Richard Davies. When the Bishop of Bangor (John Charles Jones) decided to lead a diocesan pilgrimage to Bardsey in 1952 he asked G.J. Roberts to arrange the route and to write the script giving the historical background. He was one of the small band who sailed over to the
ROBERTS, JOHN (Siôn Robert Lewis; 1731 - 1806), author, almanack-maker, and hymn-writer before Bangor consistory court in August 1765 for keeping a school in Llaniestyn without a licence. He was the author of many works on various subjects; these include Rhai Hymnau, 1760, which he wrote in conjunction with Richard Jones; Yr Anedigaeth Newydd, 1762, a translation of an English pamphlet, The New Birth; Drych y Cristion, 1766, which was the second edition of Carwr y Cymru published by T
ROBERTS, JOHN (Jack Russia; 1899 - 1979), miner, councillor and a prominent member of the Welsh Communist Party Brigade on the eve of the Battle of the Aragon (August 1937). Roberts was wounded in the shoulder at Quinto, and spent time at Benicasim hospital, before being sent to the XV Brigade Officers' Training School at Tarazona de la Mancha. The whole account has been preserved by his grandson, Richard Felstead, in No Other Way: Jack Russia and the Spanish Civil War: A Biography (Port Talbot, 1981). Roberts
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 (Minimus; 1808 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Second son of Richard Roberts, a ship's chandler, of Liverpool. He became elder (1827?) of Bedford Street C.M. church, began to preach in 1830, and was ordained in 1857 at the Dolgellau Association. He married, in 1849, Elizabeth Milnes, of Oswestry (died 1865). His youngest sister, Ann, became the second wife of the Rev. David Charles (1803 - 1880). While continuing in the employ of sail
ROBERTS, JOHN (1842 - 1908), Calvinistic Methodist missionary Born 16 February 1842 at Gwyngyll, Upper Corris, Meironnydd, son of Richard Roberts, stonemason (member of a family called Ffowc, farmers of Plas Meifod, Henllan, Denbighshire) and his wife Jane, of Egryn, Dyffryn Ardudwy. On the death of his father John went, at the age of 11, to work in the quarry, but he had already secretly resolved to be a missionary : he saved up to buy books, hiding them
ROBERTS, JOHN (Alaw Elwy, Telynor Cymru; 1816 - 1894), harpist nine and a half years. He then settled at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and remained there for the rest of his life. In 1836 he married Eleanor Wood Jones, daughter of Jeremiah Wood Jones, harpist at Gogerddan for half a century. A pupil of Richard Roberts (1796 - 1855), a Caernarvon harpist, he became a noted harpist and a skilled singer of penillion to the accompaniment of the harp. He won the triple
ROBERTS, KATE (1891 - 1985), author , Mary, Jane, and Owen) and three younger brothers, Richard (Dic), Evan, and David (Dei). From 1895 onwards the family lived in Cae'r Gors, a smallholding, where they practised subsistence farming to bolster the family income. Cae'r Gors was Kate's home for most of her early years, and she conveys a vivid sense of the cottage and its surrounding four fields in her 1961 autobiography, Y Lôn Wen (The
ROBERTS, LEWIS (1596 - 1640), merchant and writer on economics ., 74) was Margaret, daughter of ' Old ' Richard Johnson - the Johnsons and the Thicknesses (connected by marriage) were the commercial magnates of Beaumaris, and we note the intromission of Welshmen from the countryside into the privileged Englishry of the borough. Robert ab Ifan's second wife was a Welshwoman; a son of this marriage, LEWIS ROBERTS, married a daughter of ' Young ' Richard Johnson
ROBERTS, MICHAEL (bu farw 1679), principal of Jesus College, Oxford make us forget five things about him; he (with one other) acted as corrector of the press to the Welsh Bible of 1630; he wrote an encomium to the Gemma Cambricum of Richard Jones of Llanfair Caereinion, 1655; he wrote the official Latin imprimatur (24 July 1676) to the second edition of Hanes y Ffydd by Charles Edwards; he supplied many notes about Oxford Welshmen to Anthony Wood for his Athenae
ROBERTS, MORRIS (bu farw c. 1723), poet, and carpenter a native of Tynllidiart, Llanuwchllyn, Meironnydd, who later lived at Bala. He was a Congregationalist. His daughter married John Evans of Bala, Methodist exhorter (1723 - 1817). Examples of his poetry, in strict and free metres, are found in manuscript; they include cywyddau, one on Bala Lake, and another on Judgement Day, and englynion composed to each other by Richard John Jenkin and himself
ROBERTS, OWEN OWEN (1793 - 1866), physician and social reformer right to the vote was duly registered. He was a prominent supporter of the Radical candidate in every parliamentary election in Caernarvonshire, and in 1852 he supported Richard Davies (1818 - 1896) of Menai Bridge in the Caernarvon boroughs constituency as ' a man from the ranks of the long-maligned common people of Wales.' It was not long before it became clear to him that the 'screw' was being

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