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ROBERTS, EMRYS OWEN (1910 - 1990), Liberal politician and public servant He was born at Caernarfon on 22 September 1910, the son of Owen Owens Roberts and Mary Grace Williams, both natives of Caernarfon. He was educated at Caernarfon Grammar School, the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1st class honours in law in 1931 and the Sir Samuel T. Evans Prize) and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1st class honours in both Part I and Part II of the Law Tripos
ROBERTS, EVAN (1836 - 1918), watch salesman and 'the greatest horological collector of all' Evan Roberts, the second son of Hugh and Jane Roberts, was born 18 December 1836 on his father's small hill farm, Fotty Bach, Gwyddelwern, Meironnydd. The family was very poor and struggled to make a living there. Young Evan received no formal education, but he was a strong lad and in his teens he went to work as a labourer for neighbouring farmers, one of whom cleaned clocks and watches as a
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 . The family settled at Cwm-bach, a stone's throw from Bethel, Blaenau, Schoolroom, a branch of Gosen (CM), Llandybïe. He acknowledges in his writings the chapel's influence upon him and his indebtedness to its ministers, the Reverends W. Nantlais Williams, Philip Evans and Lemuel Lewis. His father died when he was only nine and in 1917, aged thirteen, he started work at Pencae'reithin colliery. The
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1912 - 1969), priest and poet Groes ' whilst his ' Awdl Goffa i R. Williams Parry ' was highly commended in the awdl competition at the national eisteddfod, Llanelli, 1962. Later, he was the adjudicator in the pryddest competition on more than one occasion. He was a member of the Gorsedd of Bards. His anthology of poems ' Y Siaced Fraith ' was staged at the national eisteddfod at Llangefni, 1957. In 1963 he was the chairman of the
ROBERTS, GWILYM OWEN (1909 - 1987), author, lecturer, minister and psychologist , superstitious and supernatural religion continued to arouse a strong reaction throughout the sixties. According to his editor, John Roberts Williams, his column 'created the greatest excitement in the Welsh press for a hundred years'. His columns for Y Cymro are not only a valuable historical source, which reveal important aspects of the debate in Wales in the fifties and sixties around religion, but also a
ROBERTS, HOWELL (Hywel Tudur; 1840 - 1922), poet, preacher and inventor the daughter of Hafod-y-wern, Clynnog, where he farmed and was pastor at Seion, Gyrn Coch and Capel Uchaf (CM) churches. They had five children. After his wife's death he married the sister of the Rev. R. Dewi Williams, a son and daughter were born to them. He died suddenly on 3 June 1922 and was buried in the cemetery of Clynnog church, though it had been his wish to be interred in the place where
ROBERTS, HUGH GORDON (1885 - 1961), surgeon and missionary One of the sons of David Roberts of Dolenog, Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, and his wife Jane Sarah, daughter of Thomas Price Jones of Liverpool. He was born 16 July 1885 in Liverpool and was reared there. He was a great-grandson of David Roberts (1788 - 1869), a doctor in Bodedern, Anglesey, and Sir William Roberts, F.R.S. (1830 - 1899), who was a prominent doctor in Manchester and London, was his
ROBERTS, JOHN (Jack Russia; 1899 - 1979), miner, councillor and a prominent member of the Welsh Communist Party Councillor on Caerphilly Urban District Council. By this time he was hero to the inhabitants of Abertridwr. He cycled from the village all the way to London in 1936 to show his solidarity to the Unemployment March. On 1 January 1937 he left for Spain as a volunteer in the International Brigade. His companion was Alun Menai Williams, Penygraig, son of the Anglo-Welsh poet, Huw Menai. They were apprehended
ROBERTS, JOHN (1910 - 1984), preacher, hymnist, poet he was seven), and afterwards took a clerical course at "Owens' College" in Holyhead. He worked for a short time with an insurance company in Wrexham, but from early youth his ambition was to become a preacher. In 1928 he entered the Connexion's preparatory school in North Wales, Ysgol Clynnog, which in 1929 was transferred to Rhyl. He notes that it was the school's principal, R. Dewi Williams, who
ROBERTS, JOHN (1767 - 1834), Independent minister and theologian preach ' and the following March went, at his own expense, to the North Wales Academy at Oswestry which was at that time conducted by Edward Williams (1750 - 1813), where he remained until Whit Sunday, 'trying to learn Latin.' He then worked for some time on the same subject with Abraham Tibbott at Llanuwchllyn, and after that with Benjamin Jones at Pwllheli. In January 1791 the Congregational Board
ROBERTS, JOHN (Minimus; 1808 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author cemetery, Liverpool. A daughter survived him. Minimus wrote much for the C.M. periodicals, e.g. Y Traethodydd and Y Drysorfa - he edited the latter in 1846, and afterwards, jointly with Roger Edwards, till 1852. With Richard Williams (1802 - 1842) he edited Y Pregethwr, 1835-8. He collaborated with John Jones (1790 - 1855) in a biography of John Elias, and wrote two other biographies; he also wrote hymns

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