David Griffin (politician)

Sir Charles David Griffin CBE was an Australian lawyer and businessman, and the Lord Mayor of Sydney from 1972 to 1973. He was a prisoner of war at Changi in Singapore during World War II, and a poet.

Always known as David, Griffin was born in Leura in the Blue Mountains and was educated at Cranbrook. In 1941 he sailed for Malaya and was present in Singapore at its fall to the Japanese in 1942. A prisoner of war in Changi for three years, he was released in 1945.

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