William Brandford Griffith (colonial administrator)

Sir William Brandford Griffith, KCMG (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.

William Griffith

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
Government offices
Preceded by
Herbert Taylor Ussher
Governor of the Gold Coast
1880–1881
Succeeded by
Sir Samuel Rowe
Preceded by
Sir W. A. G. Young
Governor of the Gold Coast
1885–1895
Succeeded by
Sir William Edward Maxwell
Police appointments
Preceded by
Lt. Col Edward Bowater McInnis
Inspector General of Constabulary, Gold Coast
1891–1893
Succeeded by
Major A. W. Kitson


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