Roy Roebuck

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

Early life Roebuck was born in Manchester on 25 September 1929. He served in the Royal Air Force for his National Service from 1948 to 1950, working as a wireless operator in the Far East Air Force. From 1950 to 1966, he was a journalist, working for the Stockport Advertiser, Northern Daily Telegraph, Yorkshire Evening News, Manchester Evening Chronicle, News Chronicle, Daily Express, Daily Mirror and Daily Herald. Roebuck was also assistant editor of Forward, a socialist newspaper. He became a freelance journalist in 1966, and was a columnist for the London Evening News from 1968 to 1970.

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.