John Aneurin Grey Griffith

John Aneurin Grey Griffith, (14 October 1918 – 8 May 2010) was a Welsh legal scholar who spent much of his academic career within the Faculty of Law of the London School of Economics and Political Science. The Guardian described Griffith as "one of the leading public law scholars of the 20th century."

Early life and education He was born in Cardiff to a Baptist family, Rev. B. Grey Griffith and Bertha. He graduated with a first-class LLB at the London School of Economics in 1940. He was called to the bar.

Local government career Griffith was the first-elected Labour member of Marlow Urban District council in 1950. He was re-elected at the head of the poll in 1953, but stood down in 1955 when he was elected as a Labour member of Buckinghamshire County Council for Marlow, serving until 1961.

As a county councillor, he led a successful campaign to stop the proposed demolition of the low capacity nineteenth-century Grade I listed Marlow Bridge, to be replaced by a modern concrete multi-carriageway bridge. The eventual outcome was the construction of an urban bypass which diverted through traffic away from the town's High Street as well as the historic bridge .

Personal life He married Barbara Eirene Garnet, with whom he had two sons and one daughter. In his Who's Who entry, he listed his recreations as "Drinking beer, writing bad verse".

Works (with Harry Street), Principles of Administrative Law (1952). (with Harry Street), A Casebook of Administrative Law (1964). Central Departments and Local Authorities (1966). Parliamentary Scrutiny of Government Bills (1974). (with Trevor Hartley), Government and Law (1975). The Politics of the Judiciary (1977). (with Harriet Harman), Justice Deserted (1979). Socialism in a Cold Climate (1983). (with Michael Ryle), Parliament: Functions, Practice and Procedures (1989). Judicial Politics since 1920: A Chronicle (1993).