User:Alihasaleem/John Griffith (engineer)

Career
John Griffith was an Irish Civil Engineer and Politician. Griffith became a mining engineer to the Royal Dublin Society and government inspector of the mines in Ireland in 1812. One of his many accomplishments included preparing the first geological map of Ireland by 1835. This was then followed by the publication of large-scale maps in 1838 and 1839. His other work included surveying bogs and coalfields in Ireland and supervising large scale public works. Griffith was created a baronet in 1858. He served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in Ireland between 1887 and 1889 and of the Institution of Civil Engineers between 1919 and 1920. He was elected Commissioner of Irish Lights in 1913 and was a member of the Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways between 1906 and 1911. Griffith then went onto receive a MAI degree from the University College Of Dublin. In 1922 he went onto pursue his interest in Irish politics, becoming elected as a member of the Seanad Éireann until 1936.