Wyn Roberts, Baron Roberts of Conwy
Ieuan Wyn Pritchard Roberts, Baron Roberts of Conwy, of Talyfan in the County of Gwynedd Kt PC ( * July 10, 1930 on Anglesey; † 14 December 2013 Rowen, Wales ) was a British journalist and politician of the Conservative Party, the 27 years member of the House of Commons was, and since 1997 was as a life peer member of the House of Lords.
Life
Journalist and Member of Parliament House of Commons
After school he worked as a journalist for the daily newspaper The Liverpool Post and then news editor at the BBC, before he was 1959-1968 Welsh Controller and Executive Producer at Television Wales and the West ( TWW ). After Roberts, who was a member of the 1966 Eisteddfod Gorsedd of ( Gorsedd Royal National Eisteddfod ), was briefly at 1969 program manager at Harlech TV.
In the general election of June 18, 1970 Roberts was first elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party as a delegate in the House of Commons, in which he almost 27 years the constituency Conway took up to the elections on 1 May 1997, after the elections was renamed on June 9, 1983 in Conwy.
Immediately after the election, he took his first government post in 1970 and was until 1974 Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Wales, Peter Thomas. After the electoral victory of the Tories in the general election on May 3, 1979, the subsequent formation of the government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1979 he was first Parliamentary Under- Secretary, Ministry of Wales ( Welsh Office ), before then from 1987 to 1994 Minister of State in this Ministry was and thus closest colleague, the Minister Peter Walker, David Hunt and John Redwood.
In 1990, he was first a Knight Bachelor and led henceforth the additional name " Sir " and Privy Councillor in 1991. In addition, he was 1991-2003 Chairman of the Conservative Party organizations in Wales.
House of Lords member
After retiring from the House of Roberts was raised by a Letters Patent dated 1 October 1997 as a Life Peer with the title of Baron Roberts of Conwy, of Talyfan in the County of Gwynedd to the peerage. Shortly after, on 22 October 1997 was his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords.
In the following years he took over some functions within the Conservative Party located now in opposition, and was only from 1997 to 2001 opposition spokesman for constitutional affairs of Wales, 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 Fellow of Bangor University and Aberystwyth University in 1997 dedicated, between 1997 and 2004 President of the Faculty of Medicine (College of Medicine ) of the University of Wales. After that, he was from 2004 to 2007 Vice - President of Cardiff University and received a 2005 Honorary Doctor of Laws ( Hon LLD) from the University of Wales.