Griffith-Jones was educated at Westminster School and New College, Oxford, before working at Christie's for some years.
[3] His official style is currently "The Reverend and Valiant Master of the Temple";[2][4] this is not used on the official website but is confirmed by the Middle Temple website and has been used by him in interviews.
[2][5] Prior to this he was chaplain of Lincoln College, Oxford, from 1992 to 1999 and a curate in Liverpool from 1989 to 1992.
[1] He is the son of Mervyn Griffith-Jones, who was the prosecutor at the Lady Chatterley trial and the Common Serjeant of London at The Old Bailey.
[citation needed] In December 2015 he appeared on the BBC's The Sky at Night, when the programme's topic was about the Star of Bethlehem, talking to Dallas Campbell.