His Honour John Houghton Roberts

John Roberts attended Calday Grange Grammar School and thereafter read law at Cambridge University, being a scholar at Trinity Hall. 

Following graduation he became a lecturer and tutor in law at the University of Liverpool and thereafter practised as a barrister on the Northern Circuit for 23 years with chambers in Liverpool. In 1993 he became a Circuit Judge sitting in Manchester, Bolton and Liverpool and at the Old Bailey. He retired in 2012.

He is married to Mary and between them they have 5 married children and 9 grandchildren.

He has been a Church Warden at St. Saviour’s Church, Oxton where he continues to be a sides-person. He is a Past Captain of Heswall Golf Club, the Immediate Past President of the Cheshire Union of Golf Clubs and a Past President of the Athenaeum in Liverpool. He is the current President of Wirral Hospice St. John’s. He is a member of the Board of Regents of Liverpool Hope University.

His Honour John Roberts was commissioned as a Deputy Lieutenant of Merseyside in 2016. He was appointed High Sheriff in Merseyside in April 2020 for the year 2020-21.