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ROBERTS, JOHN (1753 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister , he made his home in that neighbourhood. He was ordained minister at the first Calvinistic Methodist ordination, 1811; and from 1809 until he died 3 November 1834, at the age of 82, continued to live at Llangwm. He was a short man but possessed a strong constitution. He took part in the preparation of the Calvinistic Methodist Confession of Faith and the Rules of Discipline in 1823, and was regarded
ROBERTS, JOHN (Jack Russia; 1899 - 1979), miner, councillor and a prominent member of the Welsh Communist Party Colliery just two months before its sister-pit, the Universal Colliery Senghenydd, exploded claiming 439 lives. He attended the local Welsh Independent Chapel where he met May Jones and on 3 April 1920 they were married at Eglwysilan Parish Church. They lost their firstborn daughter in infancy during the 1921 miners' lock-out. Roberts was inspired in the by-election of August 1921 in the Caerphilly
ROBERTS, MICHAEL (bu farw 1679), principal of Jesus College, Oxford account) as chancellor of the university who finally dismissed Roberts in 1657. He kept on living at Oxford till his death on 3 May 1679, engaged in peevish litigation with the authorities of Jesus, or in bad-tempered quarrels with his relatives in Anglesey, or in unsuccessful bids for promotion in the Church. He was a stiff-necked man, keen on his own way, destitute of high ideals. But this must not
ROBERTS, OWEN MADOC (1867 - 1948), minister (Meth.) was highly respected. He married Margaret Jane Williams (died 29 May 1939) of Caernarfon, and they had two daughters and a son. He died 25 October 1948, 81 years old, and was buried in Llanbeblig churchyard, Caernarfon.
ROBERTS, RICHARD (1789 - 1864), inventor Llanymynech limestone quarries; when about 20 he was a pattern-maker in a Bilston iron-works; in 1814, after working at Liverpool and Manchester (to evade enlistment in the militia), he walked to London to work in iron-works at Lambeth; but in 1816 he returned to Manchester and took a small workshop in Deansgate. About 1822-3 he took a partner named Hill (for two of the subsequent years he was at Mulhouse
ROBERTS, RICHARD (Gruffydd Rhisiart; 1810 - 1883), writer and Independent preacher , owing to the dishonesty of those who 'sold' them the land and the ravages of the Civil War, they experienced a great deal of suffering, and on many occasions were in danger of their lives. In 1872 the two returned to Conway where their brother 'J.R.' was minister. 'G.R.,' as he was called, died 25 July 1883, and was buried in Conway cemetery.
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, ROBERT DAVID (1820 - 1893), Baptist minister Born 3 November 1820 in a house near the old Sardis chapel, Dinorwic, Caernarfonshire. He and John Jones (1821 - 1879; see Spinther, iv, 327-9) were cousins. He received very little education as a child nor was he given any college training after he had started to preach. He was baptised at the age of 12 and began to preach in 1839. He spent a short time as a missionary for the Caernarvonshire
ROBERTS, ROBERT ELLIS VAUGHAN (1888 - 1962), headmaster and naturalist crushing blow when he lost his sight but despite this, he remained a panel member of Byd Natur until his death in Wrexham, 3 March 1962. He was buried in Wrexham public cemetery. He married Edith Mary Davies, Wrexham in 1921, and they had one son.
ROBERTS, ROBERT GRIFFITH (1866 - 1930), Baptist minister, and writer , must have laid a restraint upon him in the subsequent years. A long illness in 1928-9 ended with his death on 3 January 1930. He was a man of unusually wide and modern reading, chiefly, of course, in philosophy (especially psychology) and theology. His editorship of Seren Gomer (1909-11) was cut short by the enforced retirement already mentioned, but later on he contributed much to the periodical
ROBERTS, ROBERT HENRY (1838 - 1900), Baptist minister and principal of Regent's Park College, London Baptist Union; and (3) The Spiritual Mind, 1902, edited by his son, Rev. J. E. Roberts, Manchester. His brother, FREDERICK THOMAS ROBERTS (died 28 July 1918), was professor of medicine in University College, London, and author of a medical textbook which went into ten editions. The University of Wales conferred an honorary D.Sc. degree upon him in 1910. (Who was Who.)
ROBERTS, THOMAS (Scorpion; 1816 - 1887), Independent minister Born at Denbigh, christened 25 August 1816, the son of Harry Roberts, a self-educated man of parts who had served nearly twenty years as a soldier. In his early days Scorpion's educational opportunities were limited; he attended a school kept by Caledfryn (William Williams) in the local Calvinistic Methodist chapel but we gather that his principal teacher was his father; he had lost his mother

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