Edward Griffin (attorney)

Edward Griffin (died 16 December 1569) of Dingley, Northamptonshire was an English landowner and lawyer.

[3] He was Solicitor General from 18 June 1545, during the reign of Henry VIII and Edward VI.

[6] Griffin acquired an existing house, a Preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers, at Dingley, Northamptonshire at the dissolution of the monasteries, and rebuilt it in the 1550s.

The porch of Dingley Hall is carved with the date 1558 and the initials of Griffin and his second wife, and other inscriptions.

[15] It is not known for whom the Griffin monument (dated c. 1565-70 by Pevsner) in Braybrooke church was erected in English renaissance style, "but it is a fine example of its kind.