Roy Delville Roebuck (25 September 1929 – 17 December 2023) was a British Labour Party politician and journalist.
Roebuck unsuccessfully stood in Leek, another marginal seat, at the February 1974 general election.
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.
[1] In 1997, whilst in his late 60s, he gained a law degree (LLM) from the University of Leicester, and received an MA in 2000.
[1] Roebuck married virologist Dr Mary Ogilvy Adams, and they had a son, Gavin.