Dr Captain John Neville (Neville)
Griffiths
Male
Australia
1881-09-09
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1917-09-30
Lebucquière, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
From The Journal of Laryngology, Rhinology and Otology, February 1918:
Obituary – Captain John Neville Griffiths
Many old and present workers at the Central London Throat and Ear Hospital will be grieved to hear of the death, on active service in France, of Captain John Neville Griffiths. He was an Australian, the second son of the late Neville Griffiths, of Queensland, for many years member of parliament (M.P.) for East Sydney. At school and university John Neville Griffiths combined distinction in study with success in athletics, being the winner of many scholarships and [in 1903] the tennis champion of Queensland. After graduation, he visited many parts of the world, including Vienna and Berlin, where he studied bacteriology.
Previous to the war, he was practising in London as a throat and lung specialist, but the bent of his interests was gradually turning to otolaryngology alone when the war broke out and snatched Griffiths, along with many other of our younger ones, away from the lines he had laid down for himself. And now the life has closed on the field of battle, and in spirit we offer the salute to a man of the highest character, keen in work, keen in play, and full of the sense of the reality and earnestness of life, yet withal endowed with a genuine simplicity and modesty of demeanour that endeared him to all who knew him.
1903 - 1907
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28
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1903 - Queensland Championships (Amateur)
Round 1
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
bye
Semifinals
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
Roland Harcus Kelsey
6-3
6-3
6-0
Final
Ernest Frederick (Ernie) Parker 1 *
John Neville Griffiths
6-1
3-6
7-5
4-6
6-2
Round 1
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
Robert Matthew (Kiddie) Kidston
6-1
6-4
6-0
Quarterfinals
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
Charles Gilbert Marriott Watson
6-4
3-6
6-3
2-6
6-4
Semifinals
Harry Alabaster Parker 1 *
John Neville Griffiths
6-3
6-2
6-1
Round 1
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
bye
Round 2
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
J.F. Ure
6-0
6-0
6-0
Quarterfinals
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
R.T. Moodie
w.o.
Semifinals
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
Frederick Gurney Henzell
6-0
6-2
6-4
Final
Henry Marsh 1 *
John Neville Griffiths
7-5
4-6
6-3
8-6
Round 1
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
bye
Quarterfinals
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
Stanley Doust
1-6
7-5
6-3
Semifinals
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
Eric David Lloyd Jones
6-2
7-5
Final
Horace Rice 1 *
John Neville Griffiths
6-1
6-1
Round 1
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
Robert Newton King Swanston
6-1
6-2
6-0
Quarterfinals
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
John Peacock
6-2
6-1
6-4
Semifinals
Horace Rice 1 *
John Neville Griffiths
3-6
7-5
5-7
10-8
6-2
Round 1
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
William Frederick Slowman
6-2
6-0
Quarterfinals
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
Eric Pockley
4-6
7-5
6-4
Semifinals
Dr Granville Gilbert Sharp 1 *
John Neville Griffiths
6-0
12-10
Round 1
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
bye
Quarterfinals
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
George Herbert Baker
7-5
5-2
ret.
Semifinals
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
Edwin Wesley Howard Fowles
6-2
7-5
6-0
Final
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
George Stanton Crouch
8-6
6-1
6-3
Round 1
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
bye
Quarterfinals
John Neville Griffiths 1 *
Robert Matthew (Kiddie) Kidston
1-6
6-4
7-5
Semifinals
Stanley Doust 1 *
John Neville Griffiths
6-4
1-6
6-2