Michael Gordon Roberts

Michael Gordon Roberts

Michael Gordon Roberts was born in St Asaph on 20 February 1946 and educated at Ruthin School, Trinity College, Dublin, and Oxford University where he gained a Blue in 1968, The following year he played for Oxford & Cambridge Past & Present against the Barbarians in the Oxford Centenary Match. Mike Roberts was the director of a sports' travel company and played at lock for London Welsh where he was club captain in 1975/76. He represented London Counties against Fiji in 1970 and North Wales against Tonga in 1974 and Romania in 1979. Between 1971 and 1979 he won eight caps for Wales and scored a try in his final appearance against England. In 1972 he played for England & Wales against Scotland & Ireland in Murrayfield. On the 1971 British Isles' tour of Australia and New Zealand he made 11 appearances.