on the male side, from Celynyn, of Llwydiarth, in Powys Baron, who was himself sixth in descent from Aleth, Lord of Dyvet, who was living in the eleventh century. On the female side, Mr Roberts is the grandson of David Mushet, the celebrated metallurgist and ironmaster, whose discovery of the black-band ironstone in 1801, “founded,” to quote Mr Menelaus, President of the Iron and Steel Institue in 1876, “one of our leading British industries, and that was the Scottish Iron Trade.” Mr Mushet's Papers on Iron and Steel, published in 1840, have been described by Mr Samuel Smiles, in his Industrial Biography, as “among the most, valuable contributions on the literature of the iron manufacture that have yet been given to the world. They contain the germs of many inventions and discoveries in iron and steel, some of which were perfected by Mr Mushet himself, while others were adopted and worked out by different experimenters.” The Mushets, who trace their origin to the Montefixos, followed the Conqueror to England, and Reginald de Mushet entertained Richard Cœur de Lion in Sicily. On the female side, Mr Roberts is also related to the Mars and the St Clairs of the Isles.
The subject of this narrative was born in London in 1847, the son of the Rev. George Roberts, successively Vicar of Monmouth, Curate-in-charge of Limehouse, Lecturer at St Andrew's,
