GRIFFIN, SIR LEPEL HENRY Anglo Indian administrator, was born at Watford, Herts, on July 20, 1838. He was educated at Brighton and Harrow, and in entered the Indian civil service, being appointed assistant com missioner in the Punjab on Nov. 17, 186o, and permanent chief secretary of the Punjab in Nov. 1878. In the later part of the Afghan War, Griffin was chosen to superintend the negotiations at Kabul, where he was only responsible to the military com mander Sir Frederick (Earl) Roberts. Griffin carried the negotia tions to a successful conclusion, establishing friendly relations with Abdur Rahman, whom he helped to set on the Afghan throne. Griffin was made C.S.I. in 1879 and K.C.S.I. in 1881. In Feb. 1881 he became agent to the governor-general in central India, where he remained until his retirement in Jan. 1889. After his retirement Griffin became chairman of the Imperial Bank of Persia, and from 1894 until his death he was chairman of the East India Association. He died in London on March 9, 1908. His works include Punjab Chiefs (Lahore 1865) ; The Law of Inheritance to Sikh Chiefships previous to the Annexation (Lahore, 1869) ; The Rajas of the Punjab (Lahore 187o; end ed. London The Great Republic (a criticism of the U.S.A. 1884) ; Famous Monu ments of Central India (1886) ; and Ranjit Singh (Rulers of India series, 1892).