Cyril Stephen GRIFFITHS

  General Notes:

Have his birth certificate.

1891 Census (Age 9) living at 340 London Road, Croydon with parents and siblings.

1901 Census; living (age 19) in Hamble(?) Villa, Bridge Road, Worthing, East Sussex with mother and brother and sister.

The Times 02 Sep 1915; Marriages; On the 24th Aug at St Mary Abbotts, Kensington. CYRIL STEPHEN GRIFFITHS, son of the late Stephen Lewis Griffiths, of the War Office, to GLADYS, dau of the late ALFRED CHARLES SYER.

London Gazette; 28th Oct 1915; The undermentioned to be temporary Second Lieutenants, dated 29th October 1915; Cyril Stephen Griffiths. (Default search doesn't pick this up for some reason - found via Google).

No issue from marriage.

Lived for some time at 'The Old Cottage, Swindon Village (just N of Cheltenham) Gloucestershire, which is the address his niece Ann St John Wright gave at the time of her wedding (1940). Not sure if this was permanent English base, or if only periodic. Michael George-Powell remembers visiting Cyril here and that he had a slot machine for 'buying' his cigarettes in the hallway !!

Earlier mining engineer in Sarawak (Borneo). Later moved to Uganda as farmer, and then Kenya. Much later he left Africa and went to live with niece Anne George-Powell in Leeds, dying there 1975. Still in Africa in Nov 62. Have letter he wrote to Reginald Maudling (Colonial Secretary 61-2, later Chancellor) complaining about the travails of being a European farmer in Kenya!

Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, 1906 mentions CYRIL STEPHEN GRIFFITHS, HARRY D. GRIFFITHS. Not sure of context though.

Report on the Sarawak Museum 1910 "The 'Burdett-Coutts' Mineral Collection was similarly rearranged with the kind help of Mr. CS Griffiths of the Borneo Company. "

Sarawak Museum, February 1st, 191 1 . Appendix A. "List of specialists to whom the thanks of the Sarawak Museum are due for kind help in ……… Mr. CS Griffiths"

Bulletin, Issues 136-147 By Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain) 1916 mentions in list 'Cyril S Griffiths'

Transactions, Volumes 51-52 By Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain). To membership; Cyril Stephen Griffiths

Transactions, Volume 25 By Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain) 1916 mentions in a list 'Cyril S Griffiths'

Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (GB) magazine 1919 "Mr C.S.Griffiths Assoc.Inst.M.M. has left England for Sarawak".

Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Volume 28 1919; “Mr. CS Griffiths said he remembered a furnace which had been in use for some considerable time. How much gold had been melted in it he could not say, but when he had started the work the chimney was in a very bad state of repair. ...”

The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List 1923; Assistant, Land and Survey Department, CS Griffiths, $6000

The Colonial Office List For Sarawak 1925; Chief Land Officer, CS Griffiths, £5,040 by $x240 to $6720.

The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List; Superintendent of Lands C.S.Griffiths $9,000

The Sarawak Government Gazette includes the following appointments Mr. C. S. Griffiths to be temporary Acting District Officer, Oya and Dalat;...

The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 8 July 1930, Page 10 ; “News has been received that six shops in the Lawas bazaar < Sarawak were burnt out on June 21st. Fortunately no casualties were reported. Mrs. C. S. Griffiths left for home on June 21st: and Dr. Marjoribanks by Vyner Brooke. We wish them gentle treatment by the S. W....

Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Issues 85-86, 1922;
1921, Griffiths, C.S. Kuching, Sarawak (can't see what the list is ; he also gets another mention ; perhaps as a subscriber of something)

The handbook of Sarawak: comprising historical, statistical, and general information concerning the colony obtained from offical and other reliable records. ;
Joint Supt of Lands and Surveys C.S.Griffiths 1924-25 (with N.A.Middlemas)
Supt of Lands C.S.Griffiths (Retired) 1925-33 (N.A.Middlesmas was Supt of Surveys)

Cyril married Gladys Edith Mabel SYER, daughter of Alfred Charles SYER and Edith Becher CARTER, on 24 Aug 1915 in St Mary Abbotts, Kensington, London. (Gladys Edith Mabel SYER was born in 1888.)