Lepel Griffin
Sir Lepel Henry Griffin,
Early life
Lepel Henry Griffin was born in Watford, England on 20 July 1838. His father, Henry, was a clergyman in the Church of England and his mother was Frances Sophia. His mother had been married previously and thus Griffin had ten half-siblings as well as two full sisters.[1]
Griffin was educated briefly at
Career
He reached India in November 1860 and was posted to
In 1880 he became Chief Secretary of the Punjab.
He collaborated with the pioneer Indian photographer Lala Deen Dayal.[6]
After his return to the United Kingdom, he was Chairman of the East India Association.[7] He was also for several years a Chairman of the Imperial Bank of Persia, and in late 1902 received the Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion and the Sun from the Shah of Persia.[8]
He was a proponent of an Anglo-American union, he addressed a meeting on 15 October 1898 in Luton, on the subject of the suggested Anglo-American union, Col. John Hay, the former United States Ambassador at London attended the meeting.[9]
Death
Griffin died at his home – 4 Cadogan Gardens, Sloane Street, London – on 9 March 1908 after suffering from influenza. He was cremated and his ashes were interred at a private chapel owned by Colonel Dudley Sampson in Buxhalls, Haywards Heath, Sussex. His wife remarried, while the younger of his two sons, Sir Lancelot Cecil Lepel Griffin became the last political secretary of British India.[1]
Bibliography
- The Panjab Chiefs. Lahore: T. C. McCartney-Chronicle Press. 1865.
- The Panjab Chiefs. Vol. 1. Updated by Charles Francis Massy (New revised ed.). Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press. 1890.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - The Panjab Chiefs. Vol. 2. Updated by Charles Francis Massy (New revised ed.). Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press. 1890.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)- Revised as Chiefs and Families of note in the Punjab (1909)
- The Panjab Chiefs. Vol. 1. Updated by Charles Francis Massy (New revised ed.). Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press. 1890.
- The Law of Inheritance to Chiefships. Lahore: Punjab Printing Company. 1869.
- The Rajas of the Punjab (1873)
- Famous monuments of Central India (1886)
- The Great Republic (Second ed.). London: Chapman and Hall. 1884.
- Ranjit Singh. Rulers of India series. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1892.[10]
Notes
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33576. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Cunningham, Henry Stewart (1875). The Chronicles of Dustypore, a Tale of Modern Anglo-Indian Society. Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder and Co.
- ^ Cunningham, Henry Stewart (1875). The Chronicles of Dustypore, a Tale of Modern Anglo-Indian Society. Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder and Co.
- ^ Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay – Full Text Free Book (Part 3/3)
- ^ Abdur Rahman Khan – 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ Life Sketch (Lala Deen Dayal 1844 – 1905)
- ^ "The Maharaja Scindia and the East India Association". The Times. No. 36853. London. 22 August 1902. p. 8.
- ^ "Court News". The Times. No. 36951. London. 15 December 1902. p. 10.
- ^ The Anglo-American Feeling – Sir Lepel Henry Griff... The New York Times: PDF
- ^ "Review of Rulers of India.—Ranjit Singh by Sir Lepel Griffin". The Athenaeum (3384): 313. 3 September 1892.
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