Member of the Ealing District Council in 1899.
From the 2018 'Structures, Experiences and Discourses’: The Middlesex Military Service Tribunals and their Appellants, 1916-1918. Peter John Harris: "The experience of the Ealing Local Tribunal, however, was that an unacceptable number of unfit men were still being conscripted. D. A. Griffin, the Chairman of the Ealing Local Tribunal, made a strong protest to Nield on 24 September 1917. Alderman Griffin criticised the general recruitment policy for failing to impress fit men and therefore making the calling of unfit men seem a necessity and wished to suggest reform." Griffin is quoted at some length.
