BRERETON
,
ANDREW (or HENRY) JONES
(
1827
-
1885
,
Andreas o Fôn
),
writer
;
b. in
Anglesey
, he was in business in
Liverpool
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
.
Bibliography:
-
Eminent Welshmen
, 1908
, and references therein.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
