Background
He was born in Hampstead, London to Henry William Roberts, a pharmacist and educated at Bromley High School.
He was born in Hampstead, London to Henry William Roberts, a pharmacist and educated at Bromley High School.
He was born in Hampstead, London to Henry William Roberts, a pharmacist and educated at Bromley High School. He then went to Gresham College to study engineering but on the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Flying Corps.
After being shot in the knee in 1918 on a bombing raid he was invalided back to England and awarded an Army Scholarship to attend City and Guilds College of Imperial College, where he obtained his degree in 1923. He became a civil engineer and worked on the Sydney Harbour Bridge (1932) and Otto Beit suspension bridge (1938) across the Zambezi river. He died in Street Stephen"s Hospital, London.
Royal Society.