Francis Llewellyn Griffith
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Francis Llewellyn Griffith (died 1934) was an eminent British Egyptologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born in Brighton on 27 May 1862 where his father, Rev. Dr. John Griffith, was Principal of Brighton College.
After schooling at Brighton College, Griffith went up to the University of Oxford in 1879, an enthusiasm for Egyptology already apparent.
Griffith was Professor of Egyptology at the university from 1924 until 1932.
By the terms of his will the Griffith Institute was established in 1939.
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