Introduction

Biography

Caradog was the son of John and Mar­ga­ret Ro­berts, and hus­band of Lau­ra Pritch­ard (mar­ried 1912).

He start­ed out as an ap­pren­tice car­pen­ter with Jen­kins and Jones, but soon de­cide­d his gifts lay in the mu­sic­al field.

He earned a Ba­che­lor of Mu­sic de­gree from Ox­ford Uni­ver­si­ty in 1906, and Doc­tor of Mu­sic in 1911, the young­est Welsh­man to do so.

He served through­out Wales as a con­ductor, judge, and or­gan­ist. He was the Di­rect­or of Mu­sic at the Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege of North Wales, Ban­gor, un­til 1920, and played the or­gan at Beth­le­hem, Rhos.