John Alfred Griffiths
John Alfred Griffiths (c1848-1933)
1933 Obituary [1]
JOHN ALFRED GRIFFITHS was the oldest surviving Member of the Institution, having been on the roll since 1873.
He was born in London and received his technical education at Owens College, Manchester, where he gained a Whitworth Scholarship in 1870. He also received a period of training at the Royal School of Mines, London. He was awarded the Watt Medal and the Crampton Prize for his paper on "Windmills for Raising Water" read in 1894 before the Institution of Civil Engineers, of which he was an Associate Member.
He went to Australia in 1873 and was engaged on construction work on various railways.
He returned to England in 1879 and subsequently became assistant lecturer at Owens College.
In 1887 he again left for Australia, where he was engaged in work for the New South Wales, Victorian and Queensland Government until he reached retiring age in 1913.
He was 85 years of age at the time of his death, which occurred in Queensland on 30th March 1933.