William Brandford Griffith (judge)
Sir William Brandford Griffith, CBE was a British legal writer and colonial judge who was the Chief Justice of the Gold Coast from 1895 to 1911.
The eldest son of William Brandford Griffith, Governor of the Gold Coast from 1885 to 1895, he was educated at University College London, graduating B.A. in 1880, and was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1881. In 1884 he married Eveline Florence Elizabeth Nevins, daughter of Penrose Nevins. He was a magistrate in Jamaica before his appointment as Chief Justice of the Gold Coast.
He was knighted in 1898.Publication
