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William Griffith (born 1480) William Griffith (1480–1545) of Penrhyn Castle was a Welsh politician. He was knighted at Touraine in 1513 and was Chamberlain of North Wales in 1520. He was with Henry VIII of England at the Sieges of Boulogne (1544–46). Early life He ...
(1480–1545), Weslsh politician * William Griffith (MP fl.1586), MP for
Caernarvon Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency) Caernarfon was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Caernarfon in Wales. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system. The constituency was created in 1536 as a District of Boroughs, represented in ...
* William Griffith (MP fl.1597), MP for
Caernarvonshire (UK Parliament constituency) Caernarvonshire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885 and from 1918 until 1950. It electe ...
* William Griffith (1620–1688), Welsh Member of Parliament for
Caernarvon (UK Parliament constituency) Caernarfon was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Caernarfon in Wales. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system. The constituency was created in 1536 as a District of Boroughs, represented in ...
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William Griffith (1686–1715) William Griffith (c. 1686–1715) of Cefnamwlch, Caernarvonshire, was a Welsh Tory and later Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1715. Griffith was the eldest son of John Griffith and his wife Elizabeth Bulkeley, daught ...
, Welsh Member of Parliament for Caernarvon and Caernarvonshire * William Griffith (US politician), see
United States House of Representatives elections, 2006 The 2006 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 7, 2006, to elect members to the United States House of Representatives. It took place in the middle of President George W. Bush's second term in office. All 435 seats ...


Sports

* William "Billy" Griffith (1880–1949), Australian rules footballer * William Griffith (canoeist) (born 1947), Canadian canoeist * William Griffith (cricketer) (1871-1948), South African cricketer * Stewart Cathie "Billy" Griffith (1914–1993), English cricketer


Others

* William Griffith (New Jersey attorney) (1766–1826), briefly served as a United States federal judge * William Griffith (astronomer) (born 1956), Californian amateur astronomer *
William Griffith (botanist) 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, Bur ...
(1810–1845) * William Henry Jackson "Bill" Griffith (born 1944), American cartoonist


See also

* William Griffiths (disambiguation) {{hndis, name=Griffith, William