Sir Ralph Edwin Hotchkin Griffith KCSI CIE (4 March 1882 – 11 December 1963) was an administrator in British India and served as the last Chief Commissioner and the first Governor of the North-West Frontier Province during the British Raj.
He was commissioned in 1901 into the Middlesex Regiment and transferred to the Indian Army and the 26th Prince of Wales's Own Light Cavalry in 1903 and was promoted to Lieutenant in 1903.
His early positions included Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar, secretary to the head of the Province, and Resident in the turbulent region of Waziristan, where his influence and understanding of the Wazir tribesmen reduced tensions in the area.
When Assistant Political Agent, Mohmand he was mentioned in dispatches for services on the North West Frontier during the early part of World War I.
[4] Griffith succeeded Sir Steuart Pears as Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province in 1931.