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ROBERTS, EVAN JOHN (Y Diwygiwr, the Revivalist; 1878 - 1951), revivalist preacher Born 8 June 1878 at Island House, Bwlchmynydd, Loughor, Glamorganshire, son of Henry and Hannah Roberts. He worked as a coalminer at Loughor and Mountain Ash when he was young, and became apprenticed to a blacksmith in 1902. He was an exceptionally gifted young man, attaining a high standard of culture through self-discipline. He had spiritual experiences at times, and he confessed to having
ROBERTS, GEORGE (1769 - 1853), settler and Independent minister in U.S.A. Born at Bron-y-llan, Mochdre, Montgomeryshire, 11 February 1769. His father was EVAN ROBERTS (1729 - 1813, obituary by his son John in Y Dysgedydd, May 1831), whose grandmother had been servant-maid to the old Puritan minister Henry Williams of Ysgafell. George's mother, Evan Roberts's first wife Mary (1734 - 1777, née Green - the Greens were also connected with Ysgafell), had a sister Elizabeth
ROBERTS, GOMER MORGAN (1904 - 1993), minister (CM), historian, author and hymnwriter Born 3 January 1904, one of the eleven children of Morgan and Rachel Roberts. His father was a native of the parish of Llanfihangel Aberbythych, Towy Valley, the son of Sarah and Daniel Roberts, whilst his mother's roots were in the Llandyfân, Trap and Carreg Cennen area of Carmarthenshire, although she was brought up at Wernos, near Ammanford, the daughter of Ann and William Vaughan, the butcher
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1912 - 1969), priest and poet island a few days later. 'Enlli'r Pererinion' was the title of his radio pryddest. His voice was familiar throughout Wales when he began to broadcast regularly in the Sunday evening programme, Wedi'r Oedfa. He wrote a number of feature programmes for the B.B.C., e.g. Edmwnd Prys, Bishop William Morgan, Ieuan Glan Geirionydd, etc. He was a lyric poet composing in the Christian tradition. His
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 (1823 - 1893), billiards player landlord of the Griffin hotel. In 1849 he challenged Edwin Kentfield for the championship of England, but when the latter declined the challenge Roberts assumed the title, which he held till 1870, when he was defeated by his own pupil, W. Cook, who was in turn defeated by Roberts's son, John Roberts, junr., in 1885. He was the author of Billiards (ed. by Henry Buck), 1869. He died 27 March 1893 at his
ROBERTS, JOHN (Jack Russia; 1899 - 1979), miner, councillor and a prominent member of the Welsh Communist Party constituency by the Communist candidate, Robert (Bob) Stewart. Though he received only 2,592 votes compared with 13,699 for the Labour candidate, Morgan Jones, and the Liberal-Conservative candidate W. R. Edmunds with his 8,958 votes, the young miner decided on the night of the election, 24 August, to join the Communist Party. He spoke so forcefully during the 1926 General Strike about Russia's support of
ROBERTS, JOHN HENRY (Pencerdd Gwynedd; 1848 - 1924), musician
ROBERTS, LEWIS (1596 - 1640), merchant and writer on economics , and had a son named GABRIEL ROBERTS (his will, proved in 1614, reveals that he was a father and grandfather). His first wife was Anne, daughter of John Hawarden of Appleton near Widnes. Two of this Gabriel's sons call for notice: GABRIEL ROBERTS, merchant Business and Industry Executor of his father's will. By his time, in consequence of Henry VII's charter of 1507, and later of the Act of Union of
ROBERTS, PETER (1760 - 1819), cleric, Biblical scholar and antiquary succeeding Henry Ussher in the chair of astronomy at Trinity College, Dublin. As his health was poor he had, in 1789, to go to reside in the Barèges valley in the south of France to recuperate. Returning to Ireland he became family tutor, later accompanying two of his pupils to Eton; at the end of the boys' sojourn at Eton (where Peter Roberts had finished a Harmony of the Epistles, published at the
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1840 - 1871), musician Born 24 May 1840 at Tanysgafell, Bethesda, Caernarfonshire. He was 12 when his father died and he began to work in a quarry. He was taught the rudiments of music by Owen Humphrey Davies (Eos Llechid). Henry Samuel Hayden then gave him some instruction and the boy was admitted, when he was 14, to the training college at Caernarvon where Hayden taught; he afterwards followed Hayden in his post. In
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1680 - 1741), cleric Born in 1680, son of Henry Roberts, ' gent., of Llandyssen, Denbighshire ' - presumably Llandysilio, near Llangollen. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, in March 1698/9, 'aged 18,' and graduated in 1702. In 1709 he was appointed vicar of Chirk, remaining there till his death there in 1741, at the age of 61, according to his tombstone. He published, in 1720, a bilingual booklet entitled

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