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John Griffith was an Irish Civil Engineer and Politician. He completed his higher education at Trinity College Dublin, gaining a permit allowing him to work in the field of civil engineering in 1868. He began his career by doing a two year apprenticeship under Doctor Bindon Blood Stoney who was an Engineer in Chief of the Dublin Port and Docks. Griffith then went on to spend one year from 1870 as an assistant county surveyor for Co.Antrim. In 1871, he returned back to Dublin to continue working as an assistant engineer to Stoney. In 1899, he became Chief Engineer in Dublin Port and Docks. He retired from this job in December 1912 after fourty-two years in the Boards employment. His other work included surveying bogs and coalfields in Ireland and supervising large scale public works. Griffith also purchased bogland in the rural Irish village Pollagh, which was an area of the Bog Of Allen in hopes to drain it and make profit from peat. This site was later bought by the Turf Development Board. 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 appointed Commissioner of Irish Lights in 1913 and was a part of the Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways between 1906 and 1911. Griffith then went onto receive a M.A.I. degree from the University College Of Dublin. Griffith, alongside his wife Sarah Purser endowed the Purser Griffith Travelling Scholarship and the Purser Griffith Prize. In 1922 he went onto pursue his interest in Irish politics, becoming elected as a member of the Seanad Éireann until 1936.