Griffith(s), Edward, Dean St, Soho, London, u and cm (1743–59). Assistant to Benjamin Goodison and possibly his nephew. Set up his own business in Dean St which attracted influential patrons. He was employed by the 4th Earl of Cardigan at Longford Castle, Wilts. in 1747 and charged £88 15s for gilding the cornice, chair rail and other mouldings. Also worked at the Earl's London house in Dover St. Between 1746–49 he supplied for Dover House a number of tables, picture frames, screens and boxes, repaired ‘a small India cabinet’ and made a six-fold screen with a mahogany frame on which eighteen pictures could be mounted. In December 1750 a bill from Griffiths for £75 9s is recorded and a further one in April 1759 for £40. Also worked at Deene Park, Northants. Subscribed to Chippendale's Director, 1754. [Heal; GCM; DEF; C. Life, 26 December 1931, p. 715; Westminster poll bk]