Francis Huntly Griffith JP, UM (1885 – 1958) was a tea and rubber planter in Ceylon and a member of parliament.
[1] Francis Huntly Griffith was born in Glasbury, Wales, in 1885, the oldest of five children of Reverend Hubert George Griffith (c.1849-c.1927) the vicar of Glasbury and Marion Douglas née Tucker (1864-c.1942).
He travelled to Ceylon in 1909 taking up a position as a manager of a tea plantation in Matugama.
[2] In 1931 he was elected as vice-president of the Planters' Association of Ceylon, the preeminent representative body of the country's tea industry.
[3] On 12 March 1936 he was appointed as a nominated member of the State Council of Ceylon.