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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
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1884 - 1960), educationalist and scholar based on many MS copies, but the editor did not attempt to produce a definitive text or to list variant readings. This was a busy time for Thomas Roberts, for there also appeared in 1914 Cywyddau Dafydd ap Gwilym a'i Gyfoeswyr, in which he collaborated with Ifor Williams, being responsible for the introductions to the works of the contemporaries - Gruffudd ab Adda, Madog Benfras, Gruffudd Gryg and
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 (1735 - 1804), member of the 'Trevecka Family' Born at Plas-bach, Llansantffraid-glan-Conwy, 31 March 1735, third son of WILLIAM ROBERTS, a freeholder who was converted in 1748 by Peter Williams, knew John Wesley, and adhered to Howel Harris in the Disruption of 1750, so much so that he recalled his son Thomas, who was in service at Bala, from that 'Rowlandist' camp. In 1759 William Roberts abandoned his property at Plas-bach to his elder
ROBERTS, THOMAS ROWLAND (Asaph; 1857? - 1940), biographer been found very useful. For other works by him, see Owen Williams, Awduron Sir Ddinbych.
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (1784 - 1864), Calvinistic Methodist minister experienced under the influence, chiefly of Peter Williams and Robert Roberts of Clynnog, led him to thirst for knowledge and he went for three months to a school kept by the Rev. John Evans at Amlwch. After that he proceeded to educate himself in the most remarkable manner, being undoubtedly assisted by his friend, John Elias. When he was 21 years of age he was elected an elder at Amlwch, and at the age of
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Nefydd; 1813 - 1872), Baptist minister, printer, author, eisteddfodwr, South Wales representative of the British and Foreign Schools Society , Glanwydden, began to preach in January 1834 and, in the summer of the same year, went to Llansilin to be prepared for the ministry by John Williams (1806 - 1856); Robert Ellis (Cynddelw) was a fellow-pupil. In 1835 he settled at Mold as a Baptist home missioner. On 25 June 1837 he was ordained as minister of the Welsh Baptist church in Stanhope Street, Liverpool (see NLW MS 7127B). He married Jane
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (fl. c. 1825), ostler and musician Lived in Tyn-y-maes, near Bethesda, Caernarfonshire and who attended to the horses drawing the London and Holyhead mail coaches. He attended music classes conducted by Robert Williams ('Cae Aseth'), whom he used to accompany in order to help to conduct in Sunday school at Nant-y-benglog. William Owen, of Prysgol (1813 - 1893), used to visit Tyn-y-maes and received lessons from ' Wil Brych.' He
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (1828 - 1872), Congregational college tutor Born 1 July 1828 at Dowlais, son of Daniel Roberts, minister of Bryn Seion Congregational church (Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, ii, 280-1). From Ffrŵd-y-fâl Academy he went in 1845 to Coward College in London, but almost immediately removed to Carmarthen Presbyterian College. With a Dr. Williams scholarship (1850) he went up to Glasgow University, where he remained for three years; but though
ROBERTS, WILLIAM HENRY (1907 - 1982), actor, broadcaster teacher at Newborough school in 1931 where he spent the rest of his life, as teacher and then headmaster of the school. Broadcasting in Welsh began from Bryn Meirion Bangor in 1935 and W. H. Roberts took part in very many feature programmes produced by Sam Jones, Ifan O. Williams, Dafydd Gruffydd and John Gwilym Jones. He won the champion elocution prize at the Cardiff National Eisteddfod in 1937 and
ROBESON, PAUL LEROY (1898 - 1976), actor, singer and political activist attending the National Eisteddfod in Ebbw Vale, where he met Aneurin Bevan and was presented with a hymn book by T. H. Parry-Williams and proclaimed: 'You have shaped my life - I have learnt a lot from you. I am part of the working class. Of all the films I have made the one I will preserve is The Proud Valley.' Robeson's activities throughout this period were accompanied by a concomitant deterioration of
teulu ROBINSON Conway, Monachdy, Gwersyllt, North Wales,' and his successor, bishop Humphrey Humphreys, sums him up as ' a learned and diligent man and an excellent governor.' His literary remains are listed in Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses, i, 505. Of the bishop's children by his wife Jane, daughter of Randle Brereton and granddaughter of Sir William Griffith of Penrhyn, the heir, WILLIAM ROBINSON (1576 - 1644) entered Hart Hall, Oxford, in

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