Silvanus Griffiths

Silvanus Griffiths, D.D. was an Anglican priest in the Seventeenth Century.[1]

Griffiths was born in Herefordshire and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford.[2] He held livings at Kingsland, Hampton Bishop and Hopesay. Griffiths became Treasurer of Hereford Cathedral in 1604; Archdeacon of Hereford in 1606;[3] and Dean of Hereford in 1617.[4]

References

  1. "Hereford Cathedral" Aylmer, G p248: London; Hambledon Press; 2000 ISBN 1-85285-194-5
  2. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Greenhill-Gysby
  3. Le Neve, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Hereford . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 481–482  via Wikisource.
  4. Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae Vol.1 p520
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