John Herbert Roberts, 1st Baron Clwyd (8 August 1863 – 19 December 1955), known as Sir Herbert Roberts, 1st Baronet, from 1903 to 1919, was a Welsh Liberal politician.
Roberts was the son of John Roberts, of Abergele, Denbighshire. He was elected to the House of Commons for Denbighshire West in 1892, a seat he held until 1918. Between 1912 and 1918 he was Chairman of the Welsh Liberal Parliamentary Party. Roberts was created a Baronet, of Brynwenalt of Kilmaron, in 1903 and in 1919 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Clwyd, of Abergele in the County of Denbigh.
Lord Clwyd married Hannah, daughter of William Sproston Caine and Alice Brown Caine, and granddaughter of Hugh Stowell Brown, in 1893. She died in 1951. Clwyd died in December 1955, aged 92, and was succeeded in his titles by his son Trevor Roberts. His brother was the amateur composer Osborne Roberts, who collaborated with William Caine on the comic opera The Island of Pharos (1904).“Personau a Phethau,” Yr Herald Cymraeg, Tuesday, May 10, 1904, p. 5: “Mae Mr Osborne Roberts, brawd Mr J. Herbert Roberts, A.S., a’i gyfaill, Mr William Caine, mab y diweddar Mr W. S. Caine, A.S., wedi cyd-gyfansoddi opera. Chwareuir hi ya Chelsea yr wythnos hon, er budd rhyw amcan elusenol.” (Translation: Mr Osborne Roberts, brother of Mr J. Herbert Roberts, M.P., and his friend, Mr William Caine, son of the late Mr W. S. Caine, M.P., have jointly composed an opera. It will be played at Chelsea this week, in aid of some charitable cause.)Kurt Gänzl, The British Musical Theatre. Volume I, 1865–1914. Basingstoke: Macmillan, p. 885. His second son was the composer Mervyn Roberts (1906-1990).
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Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,