JONES
,
THOMAS
(‘
Gogrynwr
’;
1822
-
1854
),
doctor and musician
;
b. at
Bronant
,
Dolgellau, Mer.
,
1822
. His father was a
druggist
who gave him the best education and apprenticed him to a
surgeon
.
After completing his educational course and performing his hospital work successfully, he spent some time in
Liverpool
, and subsequently at
Wrexham
and
Corwen
. When he was 32 years old he moved to
Penstryt
,
Llandegla
, and d. there in
1854
. He left a manuscript volume of music containing tunes and the cantata
Gweddi Habacuc
which he had submitted to the
Porthmadog
eisteddfod
in
1851
. His letters which appeared in
Yr Amserau
,
1851
, criticising the adjudication made by ‘
Tanymarian
’ (
DWB
, 923)
at
Bethesda
eisteddfod
, led to much agitation in musical circles.
Bibliography:
-
M. O. Jones
,
Bywgraffiaeth Cerddorion Cymreig
,
National Eisteddfod Association publication, 1890
Author:
Robert David Griffith, M.A., (1877-1958), Old Colwyn
