Brian McRoberts

Brian J. H. McRoberts (May 1931 – 1983) was a solicitor and unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

McRoberts studied at the Armagh Royal School,[1] then at Queen's University Belfast, where he was active in the Unionist Society with Bob Cooper and Stratton Mills.

[2] McRoberts' first political contest came when he stood unsuccessfully for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) in South Armagh at the 1962 Northern Ireland general election.

[5] McRoberts was involved in controversy when his secretary, Emily Roberts, obtained a newly built three-bedroom council house in Dungannon, despite being unmarried and only nineteen years old, and while many Roman Catholic families had been waiting for housing for years.

[6] In his spare time, McRoberts was a prominent member of the Masonic Order.