Sculptor, draughtsman, poet and teacher, born in Oswestry, Shropshire. He studied at Goldsmiths’ College School of Art, 1932–4, and Royal Academy Schools, 1934–8. After wartime service with the Army in Burma the artist taught at Goldsmiths’ from 1946–73. He was elected RA in 1973 and was awarded the silver medal of RBS the year after. Roberts-Jones took part in many group exhibitions in Britain, including the 1977 Battersea Park Jubilee Exhibition. One of his most important sculptures is the huge equestrian work completed in 1983 for Harlech Castle. He had his first solo show with Beaux Arts Gallery in 1954 and carried out a notable series of commissioned portraits of the famous, including HRH The Prince of Wales, the writer Somerset Maugham, Kyffin Williams the painter and the Sir Winston Churchill Memorial in Parliament Square, London.