Richard Roberts (Roy) was born in Holywell in 1920. After school in North Wales he studied at the Liverpool University Medical School graduating in 1942. He played an active part in the Medical Student Society and was an excellent speaker at meetings. He decided on a career in surgery and took the primary Fellowship while working in the department of anatomy at Liverpool. He held house appointments in the Royal Liverpool United Hospital and obtained his final Fellowship in 1948. After holding registrar appointments at the Royal Liverpool and at the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals he moved to London to the Wanstead Hospital. While working there he decided to give up his career in surgery. Doctor Roberts, as he would have preferred to be called, then entered general practice. He worked in the Woodford Green and Waltham areas. He continued to work in general practice for some 32 years when he had to retire owing to ill health as he had developed cardiac symptoms. His work as a general practitioner may have been prompted by his great interest in the BMA. He became Chairman of the Waltham Forest Division and also of the Redhill Division. He was also Chairman of the local medical committee and of the Redhill and Waltham Forest Family Practitioner Committee. He also held a hospital practitioner post in rheumatology at the Hackney Hospital. His work in general practice and with the BMA occupied all his time and he found no interest in outside matters. Being forced by ill health to retire in 1983 he returned to his well loved Wales and lived in Bangor. He enjoyed only one year of retirement, dying on 22 February 1984, from cardiac failure due to ischaemic heart disease. Richard was survived by his wife Constance and four daughters and nine grandchildren.