Author: GRIFFITH, MARY HARRIET.
Title: Memorials of the Rev. Edward Griffith.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 96; portrait frontispiece, bound in original brown cloth, title lettered in black on upper board, has the Ex-Libris bookplate of G. Lindsay Lockley on the front endpaper (Lockley was the author of "Congregationalism in Australia"), very good copy. Brisbane, Qld.; R. S. Hews & Co.; 1892. Ferguson 10100. Edward Griffith (1819 - 1891) born in Bath, Somersetshire, England. Invited to Australia by the Colonial Missionary Society. Griffith arrived in Australia on the Nile in 1854 with his wife Mary and their five children, he became the pastor of Wharf Congregational Church, one of his children Samuel Walker Griffith (born in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales) - later Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, became Attorney General, Chief Justice and Premier of Queensland. The book includes a biography and tributes to Griffith and has a selection of his sermons and addresses.

Keywords: Australian local history Queensland church history biography