Born at Bristol on 21 July 1898, the second son and third child of Edward Sidney Griffiths, building contractor of Fairlawn, Portishead, and his wife, *née* Lambourn. He was educated at St Mary Redcliff School, Bristol and afterwards privately. He entered Bristol University in 1925 and gained the Committee's silver medal for the year 1924-25. He took postgraduate courses in surgery at the London and Guy's Hospitals, and was appointed senior resident officer at the Bristol General Hospital, after visiting Vienna, Berlin, Paris, and Strasbourg. In 1929 he was elected assistant surgeon to the Bristol General Hospital, and subsequently became a member of the staff of the Children's, the Homoeopathic, and the Winiford Orthopaedic Hospitals. He died unmarried on 25 February 1933, aged 34, and was buried at Portishead; the cause of death was an acute septicaemia. In his short life he devoted himself more especially to orthopaedic surgery, and in association with Carey Coombs he was interested in thyrotoxic conditions. A surgeon of great promise, he had endeared himself to his colleagues and to the students by his readiness to help and by his powers of teaching. Publications:- Strangulated hernia in an infant of 5 days. *Brit J Surg* 1926-27, 14, 527. Case of double tongue. *Ibid* 1929-30, 17, 691. A case of spina bifida occulta. *Ibid* 1930-31, 18, 172. Acute infections and suppurations of the hand and arm. *Practitioner* 1930, 125, 721. Orthopaedic surgery, various articles with E W Hey Groves. *Med Annu* 1932.