Wyn Roberts, Baron Roberts of Conwy explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Roberts of Conwy
Honorific-Suffix:PC
Primeminister2:Margaret Thatcher
John Major
Term Start2:15 June 1987
Term End2:28 November 1994
Predecessor2:John Stradling Thomas
Successor2:Post reorganised
Term Start3:7 May 1979
Term End3:13 June 1987
Alongside3:
Michael Roberts, John Stradling Thomas & Mark Robinson
Primeminister3:Margaret Thatcher
Predecessor3:Alec Jones & Edward Rowlands
Successor3:Ian Grist
Office5:Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Term Start5:1 October 1997
Term End5:13 December 2013
Life Peerage
Office6:Member of Parliament
for Conwy
Predecessor6:Ednyfed Hudson Davies
Successor6:Betty Williams
Term Start6:18 June 1970
Term End6:8 April 1997
Birth Date:10 July 1930
Birth Place:Llansadwrn, Anglesey, Wales
Death Place:Rowen, Conwy, Wales
Nationality:Welsh
Party:Conservative

Ieuan Wyn Pritchard Roberts, Baron Roberts of Conwy, PC (10 July 1930 – 13 December 2013) was a Welsh Conservative politician.

His father was a Minister in a chapel in Llansadwrn, Anglesey, and they lived in the schoolhouse.

He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Conwy (formerly Conway) from 1970 until his retirement in 1997.[1] Although he never had a high majority, he maintained his seat for 27 years. Wyn Roberts served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Wales Peter Thomas from 1970 to 1974, and was Opposition spokesman on Wales between 1974 and 1979. On the 1979 Conservative election victory, he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Welsh Office. After the 1987 election, he was promoted to Minister of State at the Welsh Office, a post he held until 1994. He was knighted for political service in 1990.

After his retirement from the House of Commons, he was elevated as a life peer on 1 October 1997 with the title of Baron Roberts of Conwy, of Talyfan in the County of Gwynedd. He served as an opposition spokesman on Wales in the House of Lords until 2007.[1] He died on 13 December 2013, at his home in Rowen, Conwy, Wales.[2] [3] [4]

Escutcheon:Paly of six Argent and vert a cross patonce Gules on a chief engrailed of three arches also Gules three ancient lamps Argent.
Crest:A demi-lion with dragon’s wings Gules armed Argent and grasping with both paws a trumpet the bell downwards Or.
Supporters:On either side a dragon Gules armed Argent dimidating a lion Gules armed Argent each supporting with the exterior core foot a plain carnyx Argent garnished and the bell downwards Or.
Motto:Pleidiol I M Gwald[5]

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Notes and References

  1. News: David . Williamson . Long-serving Tory peer announces retirement . . 7 . 28 June 2007 .
  2. Web site: Chiara Rinaldi . Lord Roberts of Conwy has died at the age of 83 . Wales Online . 14 December 2013. 17 December 2013.
  3. Web site: Lord Roberts of Conwy dies, aged 83. 14 December 2013 . BBC News . 14 December 2013.
  4. News: John Biffen . Lord Roberts of Conwy obituary | Politics . 16 December 2013. 17 December 2013. The Guardian .
  5. Book: Debrett's Peerage . 2000.