Wyn Roberts, Baron Roberts of Conwy
Ieuan Wyn Pritchard Roberts, Baron Roberts of Conwy Kt PC (born July 10, 1930 in Anglesey , † December 14, 2013 in Rowen , Wales ) was a British journalist and politician of the Conservative Party who was a member of the House of Commons for 27 years and was a Life Peer member of the House of Lords since 1997 .
Life
Journalist and Member of the House of Commons
After attending school, he worked as a journalist for the daily newspaper The Liverpool Post and subsequently as a news editor for the BBC before he was Welsh controller and executive producer for Television Wales and the West (TWW) between 1959 and 1968 . Then Roberts, who in 1966 became a member of the Eisteddfod of Gorsedd ( Gorsedd Royal National Eisteddfod ), was briefly in 1969 program manager at Harlech TV .
In the general election of June 18, 1970 Roberts was elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons, in which he represented the constituency of Conway for almost 27 years until the elections on May 1, 1997 , which after in the elections on June 9, 1983 in Conwy has been renamed.
Immediately after the election he took over his first government office in 1970 and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Wales , Peter Thomas , until 1974 . After the conservative Tories won the general election on May 3, 1979 and the subsequent formation of the government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , he was appointed Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Ministry for Wales ( Welsh Office ) in 1979 , before becoming Minister of State from 1987 to 1994 Ministry was and thus the closest collaborator of the Ministers Peter Walker , David Hunt and John Redwood .
In 1990 he became a Knight Bachelor and from then on carried the suffix "Sir" and in 1991 Privy Councilor . He was also chairman of the Conservative Party organizations in Wales between 1991 and 2003.
House of Lords
After leaving the House of Commons, Roberts was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated October 1, 1997 as a life peer entitled Baron Roberts of Conwy , of Talyfan in the County of Gwynedd . Shortly thereafter took place on 22 October 1997 its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords .
In the following years he took over some functions within the now in opposition Conservative Party, and was only opposition spokesman for constitutional affairs for Wales from 1997 to 2001 and then between 2001 and 2007 spokesman for the opposition Tories for Wales in the House of Lords.
In addition, Lord Roberts of Conwy, the 1995 honorary committed Fellow of Bangor University , and in 1997 the Aberystwyth University was, between 1997 and 2004 President of the Medical Faculty ( College of Medicine ) of the University of Wales . He was then Vice President of Cardiff University from 2004 to 2007 and in 2005 received an Honorary Doctor of Law (Hon LLD) from the University of Wales.
Web links
- Entry on the homepage of the British Parliament ( Memento of 4 March 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Wyn Roberts at Hansard (English)
- Entry in They Work For You (accessed October 28, 2012)
- Entry in They Work For You (accessed October 28, 2012)
- Biography in Debrett's (accessed October 28, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on the House of Lords page
- ↑ Tributes paid to Lord Roberts of Conwy who has died aged 83. Obituary on walesonline.co.uk dated December 14, 2013 (accessed December 17, 2013).
- ↑ Introduction of Baron Roberts of Conwy ( Hansard, October 22, 1997)
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| SURNAME | Roberts, Wyn, Baron Roberts of Conwy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roberts, Ieuan Wyn Pritchard, Baron Roberts of Conwy (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British journalist and politician (Conservative Party), member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Anglesey |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 2013 |
| Place of death | Rowen , Wales |