Roy Roebuck

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Roy Roebuck
Member of Parliament for Harrow East
In office
1966-1970
Personal details
Born(1929-09-25)25 September 1929
Inns of Court School of Law
University of Leicester
Military career
Service / branchAir Force
Years of service1948-1950
UnitFar East Air Force

Roy Delville Roebuck (25 September 1929 – 17 December 2023) was a British Labour Party politician and journalist.[1] He was the Member of Parliament for Harrow East from 1966 to 1970.[2]

Early life

Roebuck was born in

Forward, a socialist newspaper. He became a freelance journalist in 1966, and was a columnist for the London Evening News from 1968 to 1970.[1]

Political career

Roebuck unsuccessfully fought

Select Committees on Estimates (1968–70) and the Parliamentary Commissioner (1968–70).[1]

From 1966 to 1967, Roebuck was an aide to

George Wigg, the Paymaster-General. Roebuck was a founder member of the Labour Common Market Safeguards Committee in 1967. At the 1970 general election, when he lost the seat to the Conservative candidate Hugh Dykes. Roebuck unsuccessfully stood in Leek, another marginal seat, at the February 1974 general election.[3]

Outside Parliament

Roebuck trained at the

Inns of Court School of Law, and was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1974. From 1975 to 1983, he worked for his former parliamentary boss, who had become Lord Wigg, and was President of the Betting Office Licensees Association.[1]

Roebuck sat on the Board of Governors at Moorfields Eye Hospital from 1984 to 1988. Robeuck was a governor at Thornhill School in Islington from 1986 to 1988. He was also a member of the Islington Community Health Council from 1988 to 1992, and became a Fellow of the Atlantic Council in 1993.[1]

In 1997, whilst in his late 60s, he gained a law degree (LLM) from the University of Leicester, and received an MA in 2000.[1]

Personal life and death

Roebuck married virologist Dr Mary Ogilvy Adams, they had a son, Gavin (www.gavinroebuck.com) Roebuck's wife died in 1995. He listed his recreations in Who's Who as "tennis, ski-ing, music, reading Hansard and the public prints".

Roebuck lived in Islington, north London.[1] He died on 17 December 2023, at the age of 94.[4][5][6][7]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u33005
    . Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Mr Roy Roebuck (Hansard)". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Rushdatabase". membersafter1832.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  4. ISSN 0307-1235
    . Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  5. ^ "Roy Delville Roebuck, LLM, MA". The Telegraph. 19 December 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  6. ISSN 0140-0460
    . Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  7. ^ "Barrister who was driven to seek justice for all". Camden New Journal. Retrieved 4 February 2024.

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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Harrow East
1966–1970 		Succeeded by
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