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A memorial reception will be held on Friday, Oct. 9, at 5pm at the MIT Faculty Club for Professor Emeritus William E. Griffith of Lexington, one of the world's leading experts on communism and the politics of Eastern and Central Europe. Professor Griffith, 78, died at Massachusetts General Hospital on Sept. 28 after suffering a stroke.
William Griffith (4 March 1810 – 9 February 1845) was a British doctor, naturalist, and botanist. Griffith's botanical publications are from India and Burma . After a brief stay in Madras , he was assigned as a Civil Surgeon to Tenasserim , Burma, where he studied local plants and made collecting trips to the Barak River valley in Assam.
Su abuelo paterno, William C. Wilson, fue un alcohólico que dejó la bebida después de tener una «experiencia religiosa» cuando estaba bajo los efectos de la planta belladona. A Bill y a su hermana los criaron sus abuelos maternos, Fayette y Ella Griffith, ya que, tras divorciarse, su padre se mudó a la Columbia Británica y su madre se fue de Vermont para estudiar osteopatía, lo que le ...
Norris, William (1793-1859) (specimens from) Wallich, Nathaniel (1786-1854) (co-collector) Biography. English surgeon and botanist from Ham, Surrey, who was employed as Assistant-Surgeon to the East India Company in Madras (1832) and later became Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden (1842-). He travelled widely in India, adjacent ...
A Griffith of Penrhyn (almost certainly William Griffith) was present at the tournament held by Sir Rhys at Carew in 1507 (see articles Stradling and Mathew; NLW MS 3051D , Mostyn MSS. 470, 581; Cambrian Register, 1795, 49-144). His second wife was Jane, daughter of John Puleston 'Hen' (the Old) of Bersham; William, his eldest son by this ...
William Griffith is recorded as King's Servant and squire for the body, and was appointed Chamberlain of North Wales after his father, who was the previous Chamberlain. He held the office until his death, with the exception of a short break in 1509, when he made way for Charles Brandon , later Duke of Suffolk. [4]
William Griffith was born in Ham Common, near Petersham, Surrey on 4 March 1810 and died of malaria in Malacca on 9 February 1845. He was the youngest son of Thomas Griffith, a London merchant, and a greatgrandson of Jeremiah Meyer, historical painter to George II and a founder of the Royal Academy.
