William Brandford Griffith (colonial administrator)

William Griffith

Sir William Brandford Griffith, K.C.M.G. (11 August 1824, Barbados – 1897, Barbados) was a British administrative official, Governor of the Gold Coast from 1880 to 1881 and again from 1885 to 1895.

Brandford Griffith was Lieutenant-Governor in the Gold Coast, and acting Governor from 1 December 1880 until 4 March 1881, when Sir Samuel Rowe was appointed Governor. On Governor Young's death, he became Governor of the colony for a decade, from 24 April 1885 until retirement on 7 April 1895.^[1]

He is buried at St. Michael’s Cathedral, Bridgetown, Barbados.^[2]

His son, Sir William Brandford Griffith, was Chief Justice of the Gold Coast from 1895 to 1911.

References

1. W. Walton Claridge, A history of the Gold Coast and Ashanti from the earliest times to the commencement of the twentieth century, John Murray, 1915, p.284.
2. Vere Langford Oliver, ‘’Monumental inscriptions: tombstones of the island of Barbados’’, p.21