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Griffith-Jones was a councillor in Westminster City Council from 1948 to 1954, and became a Lord Lieutenant in the City of London in 1967. He was appointed CBE in 1977. He was also an accomplished artist, and held three exhibitions in London in the 1970s.
He married Joan Clare Baker at St Peter's, Pimlico in January 1947. They had a daughter and two sons. He died of renal failure at St Stephen's Hospital in Chelsea in 1979, aged 70, survived by his wife and children. His son, Robin Griffith-Jones, is the current Reverend and Valiant Master of the Temple.
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