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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, SAMUEL (S.R.; 1800 - 1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer popular esteem with a testimonial for £400, which included a government award of £50, for having been a pioneer in Postal Reform for over half a century. He died 24 September 1885, and was buried at Conway. He was unmarried.
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1765-6 - 1841) Llwyn'rhudol, pamphleteer He was the son of William Roberts, attorney-at-law, of Llwyn'rhudol, Aber-erch, near Pwllheli, and of Jane, his wife. He was christened 'with private baptism' on 16 August 1767, but as he is stated to have been 76 when he died, on 24 May 1841, it would appear that he was born either in 1765 or in 1766. His father was buried on 16 January 1778. Thomas Roberts states that before he was 14 years old
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1835 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister of the North Wales Home Mission, 1889-99, his annual report being published as an appendix to the Drysorfa. He was an excellent writer, a powerful preacher, and a keen student of the works of Morgan Llwyd. He died at Bangor, 24 November 1899.
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (1585 - 1665), bishop of Bangor -third (£54) on 24 December 1653. At the Restoration he recovered his see and his livings, and was zealous in restoring the services and fabric of his cathedral after the disuse of the Interregnum. He died at Llandyrnog, 12 August 1665, and was buried there. In his will he left £100 each towards the decoration of the cathedral choir and the establishment of exhibitions for boys of his diocese at Queens
ROBERTS, WILLIAM JOHN (1904 - 1967), Methodist minister and ecumenist perspective. He, like many others at the time, considered the Munich settlement in 1938 'hard on Czechoslovakia but some such settlement inevitable to avoid imminent war'. On 3 September 1939 he cut his morning service short 'without address to allow members to return home to hear Premier's broadcast at 11.15'. His consideration for his congregation was also demonstrated during the blitz on Manchester in
ROBESON, PAUL LEROY (1898 - 1976), actor, singer and political activist world I like more than Wales' (Western Mail, 24 February 1949). Robeson's political activism and vociferous defence of human rights worldwide put him at loggerheads with the forces of oppression in society; the political and cultural institutions of America subjected Robeson to an inordinate amount of personal scrutiny and interrogation, and took overt and discreet action to curtail his liberty and
teulu ROBINSON Conway, Monachdy, Gwersyllt, lieutenant-colonel in the royal forces at home, defending Holt castle, Denbighshire, against the Roundheads in November 1643, commanding a company at Rowton Heath (24 September 1645) and signing the articles of capitulation for Chester the following February, then helping in the defence of Anglesey, where, after seizing the coastal fort of Lleiniog (Pen-mon), he had once more to sign terms of surrender. He
ROCH, WALTER FRANCIS (1880 - 1965), politician and landowner his life at Tŷ Nant, Llanarth, Raglan, Monmouth, presiding over their estates at Llanarth and Llanover. He died 3 May 1965.
ROGERS, DAVID (1783 - 1824), Wesleyan minister and author (1811), London (1812-3), Brecon (1814, bi-lingual), Caernarvon (1815), Holyhead and Beaumaris (1816-7), Machynlleth and Dolgelley (1818), Newtown (1819-20), and after that in various English circuits until his death at Darlington in January 1824. He had wide interests, which were reflected in Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd during the period when he was its editor (1812-4). Apart from his articles in that
ROGERS, ROLAND (1847 - 1927), musician Born 14 November 1847 at West Bromwich, Staffordshire, the son of a father who was a good musician and could play the violin. He received a good education and when he was 11 he was appointed to play the harmonium in S. Peter's church, West Bromwich. In 1862, when he was 15, he became organist of S. John's church, Wolverhampton, and, in 1866, of Tattenhall parish church. He was 24 when he became
ROSS, JOHN (1729? - 1807), printer and publisher . His daughter (or probably his sister), ANN SCOTT, continued the business for a while after her father's death. She died 24 September 1842, aged 107.

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