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ROBERT ap MEREDYDD Glynllifon - gweler GLYN
ROBERT ap RHYS Sir , chaplain to the Courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII - gweler PRICE
ROBERT (ab) IFAN (fl. c. 1572-1603), poet Of a good family at Brynsiencyn, Anglesey. His genealogy is given in full in Peniarth MS 158 at the end of the interesting copy which he prepared for his own use (in May 1587) of the contents of the bardic grammars, etc.; there he states that his mother's name was Marged, daughter of Huw ap Rhys of Fysoglen (Maesoglan), and explains how his father, Ifan ap Wiliam, came to own land in Anglesey
ROBERT, GRUFFYDD (c. 1527 - 1598), priest, grammarian and poet Gruffydd Robert was a native of Caernarfonshire. The date of his birth is not known, but documents preserved in Milan show him to have been born circa 1527 to one Robert and to domina Catherina de Griffis: Catrin ferch Gruffudd, a woman of gentry stock. The intriguing possibility is that these individuals may have been the poet Catrin ferch Gruffudd ap Hywel and her then partner, Sir Robert ap
ROBERTS, ARTHUR RHYS (1872 - 1920), solicitor Arthur Rhys Roberts was born on 27 April 1872 at 20 Ogwen Terrace, Bethesda, the only child of the Rev. Thomas Roberts, minister of Jerusalem chapel (Calvinistic Methodists), and his wife Winifred, herself the child of a Methodist minister, the Rev. Rees Jones (Brynmenai, y Felinheli). He was sent, for a secondary education, to the Salop School, Oswestry, a non-denominational boarding school
ROBERTS, EDWYN CYNRIG (1837 - 1893), pioneer in Patagonia advantage of his visit to publish the first of his planned series of fifteen volumes on the history of the Welsh Settlement. Although it was a rushed project, as evidenced by its lack of planning and almost non-existing editing, it is the first ever account of a much earlier ambitious proposal by Morgan John Rhys to establish a self-governing Welsh language state in the USA (1798). Sadly, no further
ROBERTS, GEORGE (1769 - 1853), settler and Independent minister in U.S.A. . They landed at Philadelphia on 26 October, remained there till September 1796, and then 'wandered on foot' till 19 November, when George and his family settled in the ' Cambria County ', founded by M. J. Rhys. There, Roberts found it for several years impossible to extricate himself from debt. But in 1807 he was appointed one of the two salaried justices of the county, and in 1808 a remunerative land
ROBERTS, GLYN (1904 - 1962), historian and administrator from 1535-1832 and in 1929 was awarded an M.A. as well as the Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd prize for his thesis which reveals the influence of Lewis Namier. In the same year he was appointed assistant lecturer at University College, Swansea where he remained until 1939 when he joined the Civil Service. By 1942 he was an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Supply and in 1944 was promoted deputy head
ROBERTS, HUGH (1644? - 1702), Quaker Born at Ciltalgarth near Bala, Meironnydd, c. 1644, son of Robert ap Hugh, of Llwyndedwydd, Llangwm, who had taken Ciltalgarth on lease. He joined the Society of Friends in 1666 and suffered much in consequence; he and his wife were fined ten pounds each for worshipping with Friends in Llwyn-y-brain, Cwmtirmynach, 1675. He was a member of the deputation which went to London in 1681 to see William
ROBERTS, JOHN (1576 - 1610), Benedictine monk and martyr Born at Trawsfynydd in 1576. It is now believed, on the authority of Peniarth MS 287, that his father was Robert, one of the sons of Ellis ap William ap Gruffydd of Rhiwgoch, and that he was, therefore, a cousin of Robert Lloyd of Rhiwgoch, Member of Parliament for Merionethshire, 1586-7. He was brought up and educated as a Protestant and was admitted to S. John's College, Oxford, 26 February
ROBERTS, LEWIS JONES (1866 - 1931), inspector of schools, and musician Born 29 May 1866 at Aberaeron, Cardiganshire, the son of Lewis Roberts and his wife, Margaret (Jones). He was educated at S. David's College, Lampeter (B.A.), and Exeter College, Oxford (M.A.); whilst he was at Oxford he was a member of ' Cymdeithas Dafydd ap Gwilym.' He married, 1888, Mary Noel Griffiths, daughter of capt. Griffiths, Old Bank, Aberaeron; there were six sons and three daughters
ROBERTS, MORRIS (bu farw c. 1723), poet, and carpenter

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