He was a tutor with W. R. Knox's South Australian College of Music (founded 1895) at Priest's Buildings, off Flinders Street, whose staff also included T. H. Jones, Edward Howard, Lucy Stevenson, Evelyn Goss, Professor Macully, F. Bellizia.
[2] He was for 28 years a member of the permanent orchestra attached to the Theatre Royal, served as leader and in 1893 or earlier became its conductor.
[2] He was conductor of the Adelaide Orchestral Society which, under management of Charles Cawthorne, regularly gave concerts in aid of prominent causes, notably 26 annual benefits for Minda Home,[2] held at the Exhibition Building.
[4] He was nominated one of the 15 notable musicians of South Australia of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Frederick Bevan, Charles Cawthorne, E. Harold Davies, J. M. Dunn, Thomas Grigg, Hermann Heinicke, John Horner, E. H. Wallace Packer, Harold Parsons, W. R. Pybus, I. G. Reimann, William Silver, C. J. Stevens, Oscar Taeuber, Arthur Williamson.
[5] Thomas Grigg (1859–1944) married Rachel Ellen Worthley (1859 – 17 October 1913) on 7 July 1879, had a home at 19 Robert Street North Unley.