Raymond Roberts (priest)

The Venerable Raymond Harcourt Roberts CB, MA was Chaplain of the Fleet and Archdeacon of the Royal Navy from 1980 to 1984.

Born on 14 April 1931 and educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, he was ordained in 1957. After a curacy at Bassaleg he became a Naval   Chaplain and served on  (amongst others) Destroyers and Frigates, at the Royal Naval Engineering College and     Britannia Royal Naval College and on HMS Ark Royal before becoming head of the service.