ROBERTS, ROBERT HENRY (1838-1900), Baptist minister and principal of Regent's Park College, London

Name: Robert Henry Roberts
Date of birth: 1838
Date of death: 1900
Child: J.E. Roberts
Parent: John Nathan Roberts
Gender: Male
Occupation: Baptist minister and principal of Regent's Park College, London
Area of activity: Education; Religion
Author: Benjamin George Owens

Born at Carmarthen, 1838, son of John Nathan Roberts, ironmonger of that town and deacon at Tabernacle Baptist church. He was a student at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, 1852-7, and thereafter at the Baptist College, Bristol, until 1859, when he graduated B.A. (London). He held the pastorates of Bootle, 1861-9, and Cornwall Road, Notting Hill, London, 1869-91, and was principal and theological tutor at Regent's Park College from 1891 till his retirement in 1896. He died at Folkestone, 16 April 1900. He was elected president of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1892. He published (1) Prayer and Contemporary Criticism, Five Sermons, 1873, which he dedicated to the members of Cornwall Road church; (2) The Witness of the Bible …, 1892 - his presidential address to the Baptist Union; and (3) The Spiritual Mind, 1902, edited by his son, Rev. J. E. Roberts, Manchester.

His brother, FREDERICK THOMAS ROBERTS (died 28 July 1918), was professor of medicine in University College, London, and author of a medical textbook which went into ten editions. The University of Wales conferred an honorary D.Sc. degree upon him in 1910. (Who was Who.)

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Published date: 1959

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