Roberts, William Edward, poet and mountaineer, called Michael Roberts, 1902-1948
Biography
William Edward Roberts (1902-1948), known as Michael Roberts, was a poet, critic, teacher and mountaineer. From Bournemouth School he went to King's College, London, where he read chemistry (BSc, 1922). He then read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1925), where he took the name Michael through admiration for the Russian ssavant Mikhail Lomonosov.
From 1925 to 1941, Roberts was a schoolmaster; until 1931 and again from 1934 at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; from 1931-1934 at the Mercers' School, London; and in summer 1934 at the King's School, Chester. From September 1941 to March 1945 he worked for the European Service of the BBC. He then became principal of the College of St Mark and St John, Chelsea, an Anglican teacher-training college. He died of monocytic leukaemia in December 1948. In 1935 he married Janet Adam Smith (1905-1999).
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letter, 1946, of T Graham Brown to Michael Roberts.
With:
notes, 1947-1948, of Roberts for his paper, "Early Travellers in the Graians" for the "Alpine Journal"
copy of a letter, 1830, from Geneva, concerning an Alpine accident on the Col du Bonhomme.