Emrys Roberts
Emrys Roberts may refer to: * Emrys Roberts (Liberal politician) (1910–1990), Welsh Liberal politician and businessman * Emrys Roberts (Plaid Cymru politician) (born 1931), Welsh nationalist political activist * Emrys Roberts (poet) Emrys Roberts (1929 – 30 March 2012) was a Welsh language poet and author, who was Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales. Born in Liverpool, Roberts grew up in Penrhyndeudraeth and studied at the Bangor Normal College before becoming a ...

Emrys Roberts (Liberal Politician)
Emrys Owen Roberts CBE (22 September 1910 – 29 October 1990) was a Welsh Liberal politician and businessman. Education & early career Emrys Roberts was born at Caernarfon and educated at Caernarfon Grammar School, at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he gained a law degree, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He served in the RAF during the Second World War reaching the rank of Squadron Leader. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1944. Roberts served as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Merionethshire between 1945 and 1951, when he lost the seat to Labour, possibly as a result of tactical voting. He was also sometime Chairman of the Welsh Liberal Party. By 1947 he had been awarded the MBE. He was Chairman of the Development Board for Rural Wales between 1977 and 1981, and a member of a large number of other public bodies in Wales including being Chairman of the Eisteddfod Council. He was ...
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Emrys Roberts (Plaid Cymru Politician)
Emrys Pugh Roberts (born November 1931) is a former Welsh nationalist political activist. Roberts studied at Cathays High School in Cardiff and then University College Cardiff. He joined Plaid Cymru in his youth, and stood for the party in numerous parliamentary elections, without ever being elected: the 1956 Newport by-election, Cardiff North at the 1959 general election, the 1960 Ebbw Vale by-election, then Cardiff North again in 1964. He was also active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, serving for a while as secretary of its Welsh national council. Roberts served as Organising Secretary for Plaid from 1957,Knut Diekmann, ''Die nationalistische Bewegung in Wales'', p.641 then in 1960, became its General Secretary, serving for four years.Dafydd Williams, ''The Story of Plaid Cymru'', p.28 In 1964, Roberts left politics to take a prominent civil service job, but he quit this in 1972 to stand as the party's candidate in the Merthyr Tydfil by-election. He took a str ...
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