Sir John Bowes GriffinQC (19 April 1903 – 2 February 1992) was a British lawyer and judge. He served as a government lawyer and judge in a number of British colonies in the mid 20th Century.
Soon after being called to the bar, in 1927, Griffin was appointed an administrative officer in Uganda. In 1929, he was appointed assistant district officer and registrar of the High Court. In the early 1930s, he was appointed Crown Counsel and in that position acted as solicitor general and attorney general for various periods. He was appointed attorney general in the Bahamas (1936–39), acting as governor and chief justice for various periods. He was made a King's Counsel while serving in the Bahamas. He was appointed a KC for the Bahamas in 1938.
In 1952, Griffin returned to Uganda as chief justice and served in that position until his early retirement due to ill health in December 1956. He was knighted in 1955.
Boase, Alice (22 April 2005). When The Sun Never Set: A Family's Life in the British Empire. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN185043-943-5. (A Biography of the Griffin family)
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^This and other biographical information, unless otherwise noted, from Griffin's Who's Who 1992 entry.