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ROBERTS, ROBERT (1762 - 1802), Calvinistic Methodist preacher Born 12 September 1762, son of Robert Thomas and Catherine Jones, Y Ffridd, Baladeulyn, Caernarfonshire. He was still a boy when he went to work in Cilgwyn quarry. Although his family attended church and Sunday school Robert, was a bit of a wastrel; but when he was about 16 years of age he was taken by his brother John (John Roberts, 1753 - 1834) to listen to David Jones of Llan-gan at Bryn'rodyn
ROBERTS, ROBERT GRIFFITH (1866 - 1930), Baptist minister, and writer Born 13 December 1866, at Tyddyn Llidiart, Dyffryn Ardudwy, younger son of Morris and Catrin Roberts; the father, a 'character,' was a Calvinistic Methodist, but the mother (née Evans, of a family hailing from Llanystumdwy - and a descendant of the Lloyd of Cwmbychan in Ardudwy, for whom see under John Lloyd, 1733 - 1793) was a Sandemanian Baptist, and brought up her two sons in that connexion
ROBERTS, SAMUEL (S.R.; 1800 - 1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer the latter moved to Ruthin in 1848. His youngest brother, 'Gruffydd Rhisiart', looked after the small-holding, Diosg Farm, where the family had been tenants since 1806. 'S.R's interest in agriculture was, therefore, personal and practical. His father's bitter experience of spending £700 on improvements to Diosg Farm in seven years, and having the rent doubled, accounts for his strictures against
ROBERTS, IEUAN WYN PRITCHARD (1930 - 2013), journalist and politician Wyn Roberts was born on 10 July 1930 in Llansadwrn, Anglesey, the son of the Reverend Evan Roberts and his wife Margaret (née Jones). His father was a Methodist minister at Capel Penucheldref and writer of a weekly column in Y Goleuad. His mother was a teacher at the local school, the schoolhouse also being the Roberts family residence. He attended Beaumaris County School until he won a
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1735 - 1804), member of the 'Trevecka Family' sons, and with his wife and younger children, migrated to Geuffordd by Talgarth, dying there in 1760. Thomas Roberts moved down to his widowed mother; in 1762 he took Chancefield on the outskirts of Talgarth, where she died in 1763. In 1773 he gave up his farm and joined the 'Family'; his good education gained him ascendancy in the community, and later he became a trustee. His diaries (at N.L.W
ROBERTS, THOMAS OSBORNE (1879 - 1948), musician Born 12 February 1879 at Weston Rhyn, near Oswestry, Salop, son of Evan Thomas Roberts and his wife Hephsibah Roberts; the family moved in 1890 to Ysbyty Ifan, Denbighshire, to keep a shop. He was educated at the county school, Llanrwst, Salop School, Oswestry, the county school, Porthmadog, and the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He was articled to Major Barnes, agent of the Chirk
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (1585 - 1665), bishop of Bangor by the Commons, with the bishops of S. Asaph, Llandaff, and nine others, 4 August 1641, Arthur Trevor (see Trevor family of Brynkynallt) being assigned as one of their counsel (16 November); but through delaying tactics and pressure of other business the case fizzled out in December. During the Civil War he sheltered at Bangor the violently royalist bishop of Rochester, John Warner. Deprived of his
ROBERTS, WILLIAM HENRY (1907 - 1982), actor, broadcaster Born 21 February 1907 at Brynteg, Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, the son of Henry Roberts and his wife, Marged (Jones). He received his early education at Ffrwdwin school, Llanfaethlu, but the family moved to Plas Llandrygarn and then to Llwyn Ednyfed, Llangefni and ' W.H. ', as he was popularly known, attended Llangefni County School in 1921 and then Bangor Normal College, 1926-28. He was appointed
ROBERTS, WILLIAM JOHN (1904 - 1967), Methodist minister and ecumenist family. It is only as a unity that it can take place alongside the other denominations in the Principality'. As joint secretary of the Standing Committee for Methodism in Wales, established in 1957 to further closer co-operation between the English and Welsh causes, he actively promoted the establishment of area committees throughout Wales with the ultimate aim of unifying Methodism while accepting
ROBERTS, WILLIAM MORGAN (1853 - 1923), musician Born in October 1853 in Cwm Rhiwaith, near Llangynog, Montgomeryshire, the son of Robert and Margaret Roberts. He came of a musical family; his grandfather wrote a textbook on music and his father was a member of a brass band. The family lived for a time in Corwen and afterwards in Wrexham. He won the prize at the Amlwch eisteddfod, 1878, for a part-song, 'Y Daran,' whilst another part-song by
ROBERTSON, HENRY (1816 - 1888), civil engineer and railway pioneer Born 11 January 1816 at Banff, Scotland, the youngest of the eight children of Duncan Robertson, an Inland Revenue officer. Winning a scholarship, Henry Robertson went to Aberdeen University where he graduated M.A. His father died about this time and the family moved to Glasgow. The son devoted himself to mining engineering, but afterwards decided to take up railway engineering. At a very early
ROBESON, PAUL LEROY (1898 - 1976), actor, singer and political activist solidarity within the community. When Paul was six his mother died in a fire at the family home. Robeson attended high school in Somerville, New Jersey, where he came into his own singing in choir, engaging in theatrics and excelling in sporting activities, including American football, basketball, baseball and track athletics. In 1915 he won an academic scholarship to Rutgers College, where he joined the

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