. R. Griffith was born in Boston, Mass., January 25, 1860, but was taken by his parents at an early age to England, where he was reared and educated. He graduated from Conway College, North Wales, in 1876, and then served an apprenticeship of four years in the study of architecture and surveying under R. G. Thomas, an architect residing at Menai Bridge, Anglesea, Wales. On completing his term of apprenticeship, Mr. Griffith went to Shrewbury, where he was employed for two years as an assistant architect. After this he was for two years an assistant to J. C. Cundal, F.R.I.B.A., at Leaminton, Warwickshire, employed upon the municipal buildings of that city. Later, he practiced his profession at Birmingham and London, and was graduated from the Science and Art Department of South Kensington.

Having thus acquired a thorough knowledge of his chosen profession Mr. Griffith returned to this country and arrived in San Bernardino in the fall of 1886. There he formed a partnership with C. H. Jones, the firm being known as Jones & Griffith. He resided in San Bernardino until 1889 and then came to Redlands, which has since been his home. Mr. Griffith was married in Brooklyn, in 1888, to Miss Henrietta Price, a native of Shrewbury, England. They have two children.

Mr. Griffith has been the architect and has had supervision of the construction of a great many of the largest buildings in San Bernardino County. Among those in San Bernardino are the Farmer's Exchange Bank, the Southern Hotel, the Waters and Brinkmeyer building, Bur and Byrne building, and the Katz block. Among those in Redlands are the Redlands Grammar School building, Cave and Reeves building, the Union High School building, and a great many of the principal residences in this city. He also remodeled the Sloan House into its present form as the First National Bank block. His latest work of special importance was the designing of the library building, now in course of construction and intended as a gift to the city from A. K. Smiley. Mr. Griffith's office is in the Chittenden building, corner of Orange and Water streets.

(Source: Illustrated Redlands, 1897, p. 76.)