Arthur Hill Griffith (16 October 1861 – 1 November 1946) was a politician, teacher and patent attorney in New South Wales, Australia. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1894 until 1917 and held a number of ministerial positions in the Government of New South Wales. He was a member of the Labor Party.
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Early life
Griffith was born in Westmeath, Ireland, to Arthur Hill Griffith (1810–1881), a magistrate, and his second wife, Hannah Rose Cottingham (1826–1921), daughter of James Courtney Morton Cottingham, Esquire (1788 - 1876), and Hannah Robinson.
His paternal grandfather was Richard Griffith, MP, whose son, Sir Richard Griffith, 1st Baronet, was his uncle. His great-grandmother was the noted actress and writer Elizabeth Griffith. The Griffith family descends from the Dukes of Penrhyn.
His siblings included Christopher Arthur Griffith (1858 - 1949), a physician, and Edward Arthur Griffith (1857–1949), a mining attorney, whose descendants include Jules-Arthur Paré (1917–2013), professor emeritus of McGill University Faculty of Medicine, and his granddaughter, celebrated actress Jessica Paré.