James Griffith (academic)

James Griffith was Master of Univ when Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled as an undergraduate after writing a provocative pamphlet on The Necessity of Atheism in 1811.

Shelley's friend, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, also appeared to support him, claiming equal culpability.

[5] He was responsible for the south side of the main quadrangle at University College when it was refaced in 1802, including the dining hall and chapel.

In 1819, he was a member of a Delegacy advising on the development of the site Hertford College as a replacement for Magdalen Hall.

There is a water colour painting by him of the Vale of Conway in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

View of the south side of the main quadrangle at University College, Oxford , for which James Griffith was responsible when it was refaced in 1802.