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Gwilym Roberts

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Gwilym Roberts
Member of Parliament
for Cannock
In office
28 February 1974 – 13 May 1983
Preceded byPatrick Cormack
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Member of Parliament
for South Bedfordshire
In office
31 March 1966 – 29 May 1970
Preceded byNorman Cole
Succeeded byDavid Madel
Personal details
Born
Gwilym Edffrwd Roberts

(1928-08-07)7 August 1928
Died15 March 2018(2018-03-15) (aged 89)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour
Spouse
Mair Griffiths
(m. 1954)
EducationBrynrefail Grammar School
Alma materUniversity of Wales

Gwilym Edffrwd Roberts (7 August 1928 – 15 March 2018) was a British Labour Party politician,[1] who was Member of Parliament for South Bedfordshire from 1966 to 1970, and for Cannock from February 1974 to 1983.

Early life

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Roberts was educated at Brynrefail Grammar School and the University of Wales. He was a lecturer in scientific management techniques and served as a councillor on Luton Borough Council from 1965. He married Mair Griffiths in 1954.[2]

Parliamentary career

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Roberts contested Ormskirk in 1959 and Conway in 1964. He was Member of Parliament for South Bedfordshire from 1966 to 1970, and for Cannock from February 1974 to 1983. Boundary changes that year changed his seat to Cannock and Burntwood, but he lost it in Labour's landslide defeat to the Conservative Gerald Howarth. He stood again in that constituency in 1987, but Howarth increased his majority.

After Parliament

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Following his Westminster defeat he resumed his career in local government, serving as leader of Cannock Chase District Council, where he represented the Rugeley ward of Brereton and Ravenhill until losing his seat in 2002. He served as a Labour councillor on Staffordshire County Council, representing the Brereton and Ravenhill division, which incorporates a slightly larger area than the district council ward of the same name. He retired from membership of the County Council in 2010.

He continued to live in Rugeley with his wife until his death in 2018.[3][2]

References

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  1. ^ Benn, Tony (2013). Conflicts of Interest: Diaries 1977-80. Random House. p. 18. ISBN 9781448165117.
  2. ^ a b Julia Langdon (17 April 2018). "Gwilym Roberts obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
  3. ^ Well respected former MP and councillor dies

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for South Bedfordshire
19661970
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Cannock
19741983
Constituency abolished
(see Cannock & Burntwood)