The Right Honourable The Lord Roberts of Conwy PC
Official portrait, circa 2005
Minister of State for Wales
In office 15 June 1987 – 28 November 1994
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher John Major
Preceded by	John Stradling Thomas
Succeeded by	Post reorganised
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales
In office 7 May 1979 – 13 June 1987 Serving with Michael Roberts, John Stradling Thomas & Mark Robinson
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Alec Jones & Edward Rowlands
Succeeded by	Ian Grist
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 1 October 1997 – 13 December 2013 Life Peerage
Member of Parliament for Conwy
In office 18 June 1970 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by	Ednyfed Hudson Davies
Succeeded by	Betty Williams
Personal details
Born	(1930-07-10)10 July 1930 Llansadwrn, Anglesey, Wales
Died	13 December 2013(2013-12-13) (aged 83) Rowen, Conwy, Wales
Political 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. ^{[2] [3]}

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. ^[4] 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. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

External links

• Wyn Roberts Diaries at the National Library of Wales

References