About Anthony Roberts, 3rd Baron Clwyd
Lived 1935 – 2006 (aged 71). Anthony Roberts, 3rd Baron Clwyd was a British politician.
John Anthony Roberts (17 May 1928–26 June 2016) was a Sierra Leone-born British lawyer, claimed to be the first Queen's Counsel of African descent.
Roberts was born in Sierra Leone in 1928. His mother was a slave descendant. His father was Brazilian.
Roberts came to the UK in 1952, working with the RAF serving in different locations worldwide including Sierra Leone. He came back to the UK in 1964 and worked as a civil servant until 1969.
Roberts studied law and set up Chambers at Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn. He was the first African descendant to be appointed Queen's Counsel and the first Recorder of the Crown Court in England and Wales.
He died in 2016.
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Anthony Roberts, 3rd Baron Clwyd was born on 2 January 1935.
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Anthony Roberts, 3rd Baron Clwyd died on 10 October 2006.
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Anthony Roberts, 3rd Baron Clwyd was a politician.
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Anthony Roberts, 3rd Baron Clwyd was British.
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