Lepel Griffin

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. [ [http://www.fullbooks.com/Twenty-One-Days-in-India-and-the-Teapot3.html Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay - Full Text Free Book (Part 3/3) ] ] He was sent as a diplomatic representative to Kabul, at the end of the Second Afghan War. [] He was then Governor-General's Agent in CentralIndia and Resident in Indore; and Resident in Hyderabad.

He collaborated with the pioneer Indian photographer Lala Deen Dayal. [ [http://www.deendayal.com/lifesketch.htm LIFE SKETCH (Lala Deen Dayal 1844 - 1905)] ]

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. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9E07EFDB1438E433A25755C1A9669D94699ED7CF&oref=slogin THE ANGLO-AMERICAN FEELING.; Sir Lepel Henry Griff... - The New York Times: PDF] ]

Works

*"The Rajas of the Punjab" (1873)
*" [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY3022GGGG Famous monuments of Central India" (1886)]
*"The Panjab Chiefs" (1890) revised as "Chiefs and Families of note in the Punjab" (1909)
*"The Great Republic"
*"Ranjit Singh and the Sikh Barrier Between Our Growing Empire and Central Asia"

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