ROBERTS, William, clergyman, born in Llanerchymedd, Wales, 25 September, 1809. He was educated at t, he Presbyterian collegiate institute in Dublin, Ireland, after which he was pastor and principal of the academy at Holyhead, Wales, pastor of the Countess of Huntingdon's chapel in Runeorn, England, in 1848-'55, and had charge of Welsh Presbyterian churches in New York city from 1855 till 1868, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, from 1868 till 1875, and in Utica, New York, since 1875. Several times he has served as moderator of the United States Welsh Presbyterian general assembly, and as a representative in councils of the alliance of the Reformed churches. The University of the city of New York gave him the degree of I). D. in 1863. He edited the "Traethodydd" in New York from 1857 till 1861, and has conducted the "Cyfaill " in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Utica, New York, since 1871. He is the author of " The Abrahamic Covenant" (New York, 1858), and "The Election of Grace" (1859), both of which are written in Welsh.