Ralph A. Griffiths

Ralph A. Griffiths is a historian and an emeritus professor at Swansea University.
Life.
Griffiths was born and brought up in a mining valley between Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. He attended "one of Wales' good grammar schools and was well taught in most subjects". He is a graduate of the University of Bristol and was appointed to a research post, and then promoted to higher academic positions, at Swansea in 1964.
Griffiths was a member, and later chair, of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, sat on the Advisory Council on Public Records, and on the Council of the Royal Historical Society. In 2001 he delivered the British Academy's Sir John Rhŷs Memorial Lecture. In 2004, Griffiths was appointed general editor of the "Gwent County History", published in five volumes between 2004 and 2013.