ROBERTS
,
RICHARD
(
Bardd Treflys
;
1818
-
1876
),
poet
;
son of
Thomas
and
Mary
Roberts
,
Garthmorthin
,
Treflys
, between
Portmadoc
and
Criccieth, Caerns.
— he hailed from the family of
‘
Dafydd y Garreg Wen
’ (q.v.)
. When he was about 20 years of age, he went to live at
Ty-mawr
,
Treflys
, the home of
Griffith
Roberts
, an uncle, and spent the remainder of his days there, unmarried. He was a zealous member of the
Cefnymeusydd literary society
— see
Owen
,
Ellis
,
Cefnymeusydd
. He d.
19 June 1876
, and was buried in
Treflys
churchyard. Poems by him are preserved in
N.L.W. MS. 1010
.
Sources:
-
R. I. Jones (Alltud Eifion)
,
Y Gestiana
, Tremadog, 1892
(Tremadog 1892);
-
Pengryniaid Eifionydd
, Blaenau
Ffestiniog, 1883
gan
Richard Roberts
(Bardd Treflys), gyda nodiadau ar hanes bywyd y bardd gan
R. Rowland
(Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1883).
Author:
Sir William Llewelyn Davies, M.A., LL.D., F.S.A. (1887-1952),
Aberystwyth
