Wyn Roberts, Baron Roberts of Conwy

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". 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. Following 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]

Following 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]

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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/checkTemplate:Succession box/check Member of Parliament for Conwy
(Constituency known as Conway, 1970–1983)
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