A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Griffith, Smyth
GRIFFITH. (Lieut., 1823. f-p., 32; h-p., 3.)
Smyth Griffith entered the Navy, 6 Nov 1812 as Third-cl. Boy, on board the Malta 84, Capt. Sam. Hood Inglefield, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Rear-Admiral Benj. Hallowell. Towards the close of 1815 he sailed for St. Helena as Midshipman of the Phaeton 38, Capt. Fras. Stanfell, under whom – with the exception of a servitude of a few months in 1818 on board the Rochfort 80, and Liffey 50, commanded at Portsmouth and Chatham hy Capts. Sir Archibald Collingwood Dickson and Hon. Henry Duncan – he continued to be there employed, in the same ship, and in the Conqueror 74, until Oct. 1820. He then joined the Sybille frigate, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Rowley on the Jamaica station, where, on 16 June, 1823, he was confirmed a Lieutenant in the Surinam 18, Capt. Chas. Crole. His appointments have since been – 12 Aug. 1824, 24 Oct. 1824, and 17 March, 1825, to the Eden 26, Isis 50, and Thracian 18, Capts. John Lawrence, Thos. Forrest, and Andw. Forbes, stationed in the West Indies and South America – 23 Feb. 1827, to the Tyne 28, Capt. Sir Rich. Grant, employed, until June, 1830, on Particular Service – 25 Nov. 1831, and 9 July, 1836, to the successive command of the Swallow and Magnet Falmouth packets – 22 July, 1842, to the Coast Guard – and, 14 March, 1846, to be Admiralty Agent on board a contract mail steam-vessel, in which capacity he is now serving.
Lieut. Griffith married, 29 March, 1834, Ellen, eldest daughter of Thos. Galloway, Esq., Surgeon R.N. (1801). Agent – J. Chippendale.