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] |