GRIFFITH, SIR SAMUEL WALKER Australian lawyer and statesman, was born at Merthyr Tydfil on June 21, 1845, the son of the Rev. Edward Griffith, afterwards of Brisbane. He was educated at the university of Sydney. In 1867 he was called to the bar in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. He became Q.C. in 1876. He entered the legislative assembly of Queensland (1872). After holding a series of high offices he became (1903) the first chief justice of the Australian Commonwealth, and held that office until 1919. He was the chief bulwark of the Conservative cause in Australia and his clear intel lect, never influenced by passion and rarely by sympathy, has left a deep stamp on Australian life. He published The Queens land Criminal Code, and a translation of Dante's Diving Com media (1912) . He died at Brisbane on Aug. 9, 1920.