Was educated at Owens College, at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester, and at the Victoria Dental Hospital. He was House Surgeon both at the Royal Infirmary and at the Victoria Dental Hospital, and also for a time at the British Seamen's Hospital, Royal Albert Dock. Intense deafness led him to take up

The son of Judge Griffith of the County Court, Wolverhampton Circuit, previously Attorney-General, Cape Colony. He entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1882, and, after gaining a scholarship, graduated with a first class in the Classical Tripos in 1885. He then studied at St Thomas's Hospital, where