Trevor Roberts, 2nd Baron Clwyd
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John Trevor Roberts, 2nd Baron Clwyd of Abergele in the County of Denbigh (28 November 1900 – 30 March 1987), also Sir John Trevor Roberts, 2nd Baronet, was a Welsh peer. He was known as Trevor Roberts.
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[edit] Background and early life
Roberts was the son of John Roberts, 1st Baron Clwyd and of Hannah, Lady Roberts, a daughter of William Sproston Caine MP. He was also the grandson of John Roberts MP, of Abergele, Denbighshire.
He was educated at Gresham's School and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1922).
[edit] Career
Roberts was admitted a Barrister of Gray's Inn in 1930 and served as Assistant Secretary of Commissions in the Lord Chancellor's Department of the House of Lords from 1948 to 1961. He was appointed a JP for London in 1950 and succeeded his father as a member of the House of Lords in 1955. He had houses in London and in Selborne, Hampshire.
[edit] Family
In 1932, Roberts married Joan de Bois (died 1985), daughter of Charles R. Murray, of Partickhill, Glasgow, and they had one son, John Anthony Roberts, 3rd Baron Clwyd (born 2 January 1935, died 2006) and one daughter.
[edit] References
- Clywd, John Trevor Roberts in Who Was Who 1897-2006 online, from Clywd, John Trevor Roberts (accessed 22 August 2007)
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors), Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition, St Martin's Press, New York, 1990)
- Barons Clwyd at Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
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| Preceded by John Roberts |
Baron Clwyd 1955–1987 |
Succeeded by Anthony Roberts |
