BRERETON, ANDREW (or HENRY) JONES (1827 - 1885, Andreas o Fôn), writer
Pseudonym: Andreas O Fôn
Date of birth: 1827
Date of death: 1885
Gender: Male
Occupation: writer
Area of activity: Literature and Writing
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins
Born 11 September 1827 in Liverpool, he was in business there and afterwards as a brewer at Mold. He wrote in various periodicals, frequented eisteddfodau, and edited the transactions of the Mold Cymreigyddion Eisteddfod of 1851. In 1878, a national testimonial to him was set on foot, but he diverted the money to the foundation of a scholarship at University College, Aberystwyth.
Author
- Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)
- T. R. Roberts, Eminent Welshmen: a short biographical dictionary of Welshmen... from the earliest times to the present (1908), and references therein
Sources
- T. Morgan, Enwogion Cymreig 1700-1900 (1907), p.32
- Wikipedia Article: Andrew Jones Brereton
Further Reading
- Wikidata: Q20561073
Additional Links
Published date: 1959
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