John Griffith (engineer)

John Griffith (engineer) Sir John Purser Griffith (5 October 1848 – 21 October 1938) was a Welsh-born Irish civil engineer and politician.

Griffith was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and gained a licence in civil engineering in 1868. He served a two-year apprenticeship under Dr Bindon Blood Stoney, the Engineer in Chief of the Dublin Port and Docks, before working as assistant to the county surveyor of County Antrim. He returned to Dublin in 1871 and worked as Dr. Stoney's assistant, becoming the Chief Engineer in 1898 before retiring in 1913.

He served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in Ireland between 1887 and 1889 and of the Institution of Civil Engineers between 1919 and 1920. He was elected Commissioner of Irish Lights in 1913 and was a member of the Royal Commission on Canals and Waterways between 1906 and 1911.

Griffith purchased and drained the bogland at Pollagh, part of the Bog of Allen, a peat fuelled power station was built which drove an excavator, excess peat being taken by the Grand Canal for sale in Dublin. The site was sold to the Turf Development Board in 1936 who used it as a basis for all of their later peat fuelled power stations, the area is now a nature reserve.

Griffith received a knighthood in 1911 and became vice-president of the Royal Dublin Society in 1922. He served as Honorary Professor of Harbour Engineering in Trinity College, his alma mater, and received an honorary M.A.I. degree from the University of Dublin in 1914. From 1922 he was an elected member of the Seanad Éireann until its abolition in 1936. In the 1930s he and his niece Sarah Purser, endowed the Purser Griffith Travelling Scholarship and the Purser Griffith Prize to the two best performing students in European Art History at University College Dublin.

He died at Rathmines Castle in Dublin on 21 October 1938. Provided by Wikipedia

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Water power and Irish industrial development :

[Paper and discussion at the Dublin Technical Instruction Congress, 1921]
Main Creator:
Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938
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English
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1921.
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Physical description: 19 p. ; 22 cm.
 

The port of Dublin /

Main Creator:
Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938
Language:
English
Published / Created
[1903]
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At head of title: The Institution of Naval Architects...
 

A proposed national harbour in Galway Bay

Main Creator:
Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938
Language:
English
Published / Created
1923
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Physical description: 11, [1] p., map 22 cm.
 

The further supply of electricity and potable water to greater Dublin from the river Liffey.

Main Creator:
Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938
Language:
English
Published / Created
April 1933.
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Physical description: 7 p. : map. ; 22 cm.
 

Letter from Sir John Purser Griffith to Edward Henry Andrews declining to attend meeting to discuss compensation to families of innocent persons killed or injured in the 1916 Easter Rising, 1916 Jun. 6.
Main Creator:
Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938
Language:
English
In collection:
Senator James Green Douglas Papers.
Published / Created
1916 Jun. 6.
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Physical description: 1 item (1 page).
Letter from Sir John Purser Griffith to Edward Henry Andrews declining to attend meeting to discuss compensation to families of innocent persons killed or injured in the 1916 Easter Rising,

The water-power resources of Ireland :

Lecture before the Royal Dublin Society, January 11th, 1922.
Main Creator:
Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938
Language:
English
Published / Created
[1922]
Notes
Physical description: 44 p. ; 22 cm.
 

Address of Sir John Purser Griffith president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 4 November, 1919.

Main Creator:
Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938
Language:
English
Published / Created
1919.
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Physical description: 30 p. 21 cm.
 

'Peat in Ireland', a paper by Sir John Purser Griffith presented to the Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland, April 1933 with manuscript notes by Thomas Johnson, 1933.
Main Creator:
Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938
Language:
English
In collection:
Thomas Johnson Papers
Published / Created
1933.
Notes
Print and manuscripts. Physical description: 1 folde...

Paper by Sir John Purser Griffith titled 'Peat in Ireland', presented to the Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland in April 1933, 1933.
Main Creator:
Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938
Language:
English
In collection:
Thomas Johnson Papers.
Published / Created
1933.
Notes
Includes manuscript notes by Thomas Johnson. Physical...
Paper by Sir John Purser Griffith titled 'Peat in Ireland', presented to the Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland in April 1933,

The port of Dublin :

an historical sketch. An address to the Dublin University Engineering Students' Society, November 27th, 1914. /
Main Creator:
Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938
Language:
English
Published / Created
1915.
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Physical description: [1-3] 4-33, [1] p., [2] leaves...
 

Notes on the Siemens-Schuckert Shannon power scheme :

as expounded to the Dáil by the Minister of Industry and Commerce on the 19th December, 1924.
Main Creator:
Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938.
Language:
English
Published / Created
1925.
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This pamphlet is bound with 19 other pamphlets at P 2...
 

The development of appliances for handling raw materials and merchandise at ports and other large centres of traffic, being the "James Forrest" Lecture, 1916.

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Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938
Language:
English
Published / Created
1916.
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References to Dublin port. Physical description: 29...
 

An extract from an address to the Rotary Club on the history and development of the port of Dublin :

27th March, 1916 /
Main Creator:
Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938.
Language:
English
Published / Created
1916].
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Physical description: 10 p. ; 24cm.
 

Note on the finances of the Dublin Port and Docks Board /

Main Creator:
Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938
Language:
English
Published / Created
[1915]
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Physical description: 18 p. ; 24 cm.
 

The peat problem in Ireland, with a suggestion as to its solution /

Main Creator:
Griffith, Frederick Purser.
Language:
English
Published / Created
[1927]
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Covers missing. Physical description: 13 p. ; 22 cm.
Contributors:
“...Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938....”
 

Report of the water power resources of Ireland Subcommittee.

Main Creator:
Great Britain. Water Power Resources of Ireland Subcommittee.
Language:
English
Published / Created
1921.
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At head of title: Board of Trade. John P. Griffith,...
Contributors:
“...Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938....”
 

Correspondence of James G. Douglas, 1916-1917.
Main Creator:
Douglas, J. G. (James Green), 1887-1954
Language:
English
In collection:
Senator James Green Douglas Papers.
Published / Created
1916-1917.
Notes
Physical description: 2 folders (14 items).
Contributors:
“...Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938...”

[Handbill from a group of politicans concerning matters relating to financial support for Cumann na nGaedhael and Independent candidates [who were supporting the government party] in the 1927 general election /

Language:
English
Published / Created
1927.
Notes
This item is held in the Ephemera Department. The na...
Contributors:
“...Griffith, John Purser, 1848-1938...”
[Handbill from a group of politicans concerning matters relating to financial support for Cumann na nGaedhael and Independent candidates [who were supporting the government party] in the 1927 general election /
 
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