Английская Википедия:Francis Huntly Griffith

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Francis Huntly Griffith JP, UM (1885 – 1958) was a tea and rubber planter in Ceylon and a member of parliament.[1]

Francis Huntly Griffith was born in Glasbury, Wales, in 1885, the oldest of five children of Reverend Hubert George Griffith (c.1849-c.1927) the vicar of Glasbury and Marion Douglas née Tucker (1864-c.1942).

He travelled to Ceylon in 1909 taking up a position as a manager of a tea plantation in Matugama. In 1920 he took up the manager's role at a tea plantation in Agalawatta.

In October 1928 he married Nancy Barton née Robinson, the only daughter of Sir Arthur Robinson and Lady Annie Summers Robinson, in St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge.[2]

In 1931 he was elected as vice-president of the Planters' Association of Ceylon, the preeminent representative body of the country's tea industry.[3]

On 12 March 1936 he was appointed as a nominated member of the State Council of Ceylon.[4]

Following Ceylon's first parliamentary elections in 1947, Griffith was appointed as a member of the Ceylon House of Representatives. He was one of six members appointed by the Governor-General, to represent important interests which were not represented or inadequately represented in the House.[5][6] He resigned from parliament in September 1951 and his position was filled by Robert Singleton-Salmon.[7]

He and his wife migrated to Australia in 1952, where they resided in Ferny Creek, Victoria. Huntly died in July 1958 in Melbourne, Victoria.

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