Griffith Coat of Arms & Family Crest - Symbols, Bearers, History 

19) Griffith of Bangor, co. Carnarvon, Wales - John Griffith Griffith Esq. of Bangor (1818-1863) - much earlier there was Edmund Griffith (1570-1637), Bishop of Bangor - Paly of eight gules and sable a lion rampant or, a bordure nebulée of the last. Crest: Upon a mount vert a lion statant, tail extended ermine charged on the body with three crosses pattée in fesse gules. 20) Griffith of Llwynduris, co. Cardigan, Wales - John Griffith Esq. of Llwynduris (d. 1873) son of Rev. Thomas Griffith - Per chevron gules and argent two chevronels counterchanged between as many men’s heads in profile, armed in helmets, vizors up ppr. garnished or, in chief, and a lion rampant reguardant sable in base, for Griffith. Crest-Griffith: A griffin reguardant sable wings elevated or, in the mouth an arrow, the barb, downwards ppr. the dexter fore-claw resting upon a man’s head in profile armed in a helmet, as in the arms. Motto-Le bon temps viendra. 21) Griffith of Yorkshire - Ermine a bend gules cotised or. 22) Griffeth of England - Ermine a lion rampant gules. Crest-A griffin’s head erased or (another proper). Motto-Non crux sed lux. 23) Robert Eglesfield Griffith (1798-1850), American physician, botanist, and educator, son of Robert Eglesfeld Griffith - Ermine a lion rampant or Crest: A griffin’s head erased or. Motto: Omnis a Deo protestas. 24) William Griffiths of Philadelphia - Argent on a cross sable five crescents in the dexter chief a spear head erect Crest: A griffin passant. Motto: Benevolentia et justitia. Note: Was this the William Griffiths (d. 1799) who was a master builder and member of the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia? 25) William Griffith of Oneida County, New York, arrived in 1721, from Cardigan, Wales - Gules, three lioncels passant in pale argent, armed azure. Crest: A demi-lion rampant sable armed gules. Motto: Virtus omnia nobilitat 26) Griffith of Foxley, co. Herefordshire - Henry St. George Griffiths Esq., botanist (fl. 1794) - Argent two bars dancettee gules between in chief a griffin segreant between two grasshoppers, and in base three ravens sable. 27) Griffiths of Herefordshire - Argent on a fesse dancettée gules voided of the field three blackbirds proper in chief a griffin segreant between two crickets of the second. Crest: A wolf’s head sable semée d’estoiles or. Motto-Firmitas et sanitas. 28) Griffith of Caer Rhun, co. Carnarvon, Wales - acquired by Ralph Griffith (1710-1795) through marriage into the Davies family, son of Walter Griffith (1680-1739) - Argent a cross flory engrailed sable between four Cornish choughs proper on a chief azure a boar’s head couped argent tusked or, and langued gules. 29) Griffith of Garn, co. Denbigh, Wales - One member of this family was Lieutenant Colonel Edward Griffith (1589-1671) and another was John Wynne Griffith (1763-1834), Member of Parliament - Paly of six argent and sable. 30) Griffith of Warwickshire - Sable a griffin segreant argent a crescent for difference. 31) Griffiths of Chwaen, Isle of Anglesea, Wales - One member of this family was Richard Williams Griffin (1832-), Rector of Llanfairisgaer, son of Edward Young Griffiths, a medical doctor - Gules a chevron between three lions rampant or. 32) Sable three crosses pattée or, a label argent. 33) Rev. Thomas Griffith (fl. 1874), M.A., Prebendary of St. Paul’s, son of Benjamin Griffith - Or, on a bend gules between two griffins segreant azure three mullets pierced argent quartering, Jackman, viz., Per saltire argent and sable two eagles displayed of the last. Crest-A griffin’s head erased sable guttee d’or. 34) Rhys ap Griffith, Prince of South Wales from rom 1155 to 1197 - Gules, a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or. 35) Griffith of Neath, co. Glamorgan, Wales - Rev. John Griffiths was Rector of Neath (born 1920), eldest son od Thomas Griffiths Esq. of Dolygwartheg, co. Cardiganshire, descended paternally from Robert Griffin, a descendant Rhys Griffith ap Einion, and maternally from Arthur Griffiths Esq. - Gules a lion rampant or in a true lovers knot argent between 4 fleur-de-lis their stalks bending to the centre of the escutcheon. Crest: A horse’s head couped proper. Motto: A gadowo Duw, cadwedig yw. 36) Joseph Griffith (1851-1908), solicitor, mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme, had sons Joseph Griffith (born 1880) and Edward Barlett Griffith (born 1889) - Gules, a fesse dancettee argent, between two castles in pale and four lions rampant in saltire or. Crest: In front of a castle sable, a woman’s head affrontee couped below the shoulders proper, crined or. Motto: Le bons temps viendra. 37) Azure a boar between 10 trefoils slipped argent. 38) Griffith of Worcestershire, England - John Griffith, Rector of St. Nicholas, Worcester and a minor canon (born c. 1648), son of Thomas Griffith, Clerk, son of Paul Griffith, Rector of Kimble, near Aylesbury, co. Buckinghamshire, son of John Griffith of Worcester, clerk, son of John Griffith, Vicar of Buckingham - Azure, a chevron between three dolphins embowed, the two in chief respecting other, argent 39) Brinton Crossley Griffiths (1877-1953), fourth son of William Higford Griffiths of Campden, co. Gloucestershire (1823-1910), solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature, son of John Rodd Griffiths (d. 1857), solicitor, son of John Higford Griffiths (c. 1766-1835) - Azure, on a chevron between three dolphins two in chief respecting each other and one in base naiant argent, a mullet sable, between two torteaux. Mantling azure and argent. Crest - On a wreath of the colours, a griffin sejant azure, resting the dexter claw on a lozenge argent, charged with a rose gules, barbed and seeded proper. Motto - " Deo confido.“ 40) Sir Samuel Walker Griffith of Merthyr, Wales and Brisbane, Australia (1845-1920), 1st Chief Justice of Australia, son of Rev. Edward Griffith, had son Edward Percivale Thomson Griffith Esq. (born 1877) - Gules, on a pile or, between two lions rampant of the last, a cross flory of the field. Crest: On a wreath of the colours, a wyvern with wings endorsed proper, semee of trefoils or, the dexter foot supporting an escutcheon of the last, charged with a cross flory as in the arms. Motto: Esperance sans peur. 41) Or, on a pale gules between two lions rampant in chief, and as many martlets in base of the last, a cross flory argent. Crest: Upon a wreath of the colours, a demi-woman affrontee proper, vested argent, supporting with the dexter hand a cross crosslet erect of the last, and resting the sinister hand on an escutcheon also argent, charged with a rose gules, barbed and seeded proper. Motto: A fin. Francis Robert Griffith (d. 1901), had sons: Francis Charles Griffith Esq., Inspector General of Police Ralph Edwin Hotchkin Griffith Esq., Lieutenant Colonel in India William Robert Clavey Griffith Esq., Major in India Rev. George Octavius Fletcher Griffith (born 1848), eight son of Rev. John Wickham Griffith, Rector of Bishopstrow and Pertwood, co. Wiltshire. Herbert Edward Griffith (born 1861), solicitor of the Supreme Court, second son of Edward Clavey Griffith Rev. Thomas Henry Griffith (born 1828), Vicar of Hornchurch, co. Essex and Rector of Smarden, co. Kent 42) Richard William Smith Griffith Esq. of Eyeworth Lodge, Lyndhurst, co. Hampshire (fl. 1872), inventor, made “improvements in the manufacture of gunpowder” - Or, on a bend between a lion rampant in chief and a martlet in base gules, a cross flory argent. Crest: Upon a wreath of the colours, a demi-maiden affrontee proper, vested azure, holding in the dexter hand a cross flory fitchee or, and resting the sinister on a lozenge also or, charged with a martlet gules. Motto: Fidele a fin. 43) Gerald Rogers Larcom Griffiths (born 1879), son of Edward St. John Griffiths Esq. of Upton House, co. Hampshire (born 1835), Colonel of the Princess of Wales Own Yorkshire Regiment - Or, a cross parted and fretted gules, in the first and fourth quarters a lion rampant, and in the second and third three horses' heads couped sable, guttee d'or. Mantling gules and or. Crest: Upon a wreath of the colours, a lion rampant gules, charged with a chevron or, holding between the forepaws an escutcheon argent, thereon a stag's head caboshed of the first, and resting the hind-leg on a cinquefoil of the second. Motto: Usque ad aras amicus.