Sir Lepel Henry Griffin KCSI (1838–1908) was a British administrator and diplomat in colonial India. He was also a writer.
He entered the Indian Civil Service in 1860. In 1880 he became Chief Secretary of the Punjab.[1] He was sent as a diplomatic representative to Kabul, at the end of the Second Afghan War.[2] He was then Governor-General's Agent in Central India and Resident in Indore; and Resident in Hyderabad.
He collaborated with the pioneer Indian photographer Lala Deen Dayal.[3]
He was a proponent of an Anglo-American union, he addressed a meeting on 15 October, 1898 in Luton, on the subject of the suggested Anglo-American union, Col. John Hay, the former United States Ambassador at London attended the meeting.[4]