John Griffiths (surgeon)

John Griffiths of Erryd (28 October 1754 – 17 September 1822) was a London medical practitioner and surgeon.

Griffiths was among those who gave evidence to the 1802 Committee of the House of Commons on Dr JENNER'S Petition respecting his Discovery of Vaccine Inoculation against small pox, recently discovered by Edward Jenner.

In his evidence, Griffiths indicated that he had inoculated upward to fifteen hundred persons, none of whom has had untoward symptoms, among them three of his own children, at various periods within three years.

[3][4][5] Griffiths married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir William Neville Hart M.P.

He died in Charmouth, Dorset, where they are both buried in the graveyard of St Andrew's Parish Church.