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Michael A. W. Griffin (1928-2005) was born in the Village of Horton, a small English village on the edge of "Shakespeare country" on the 28th September 1928. Originally commissioned into the "Ox and Bucks", The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, in 1948 he transferred to the RAOC Royal Army Ordnance Corps. He served in the 1949 Malayan Emergency. Successive postings took him to Hong Kong, Germany and again to Singapore from 1962 to 1965 during Confrontation Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation.

In 1969, he left the British Army and joined the National Health Service (NHS). Michael became a senior executive in the NHS and subsequently took his expertise to both Brunei and Qatar to commission prestigious modern hospitals for both governments.

Originally, Michael joined a small team (an administrator and an engineer) to commission the new Brunei hospital. After Brunei's Declaration of Independence he formed a local company to complete the hospital project and two private clinics in the Sultan's palace Istana Nurul Iman. Without returning to the UK, Michael took up the post of Director with the Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar, commissioning both the The Hamad General Hospital and the smaller Women's Hospital.

In his retirement, in Spain, Michael took a vigorous part in the Community, chairing and supporting various local groups, in addition, he and his family also took an interest in genealogical research.

Michael travelled to the Far East on the Empire Windrush just after it became a Troopship, in 1948. The journey took six weeks, stopping at many ports en route.