The Royal Society of Queensland Award of Life Membership to Dilwyn J. Griffiths, 15 June 2021

Born in 1932 and brought up in a rural farming community in West Wales, UK, Dilwyn Griffiths received his early education at Brynconin Primary School and later at the nearby County Secondary School in Narberth, Pembrokeshire. His ambition was to train as a schoolteacher, and in his later school years (the two-year sixth form of the Welsh Joint Education System), he developed an i nterest in science. Candidates for the Higher School Certificate were required, in those days, to submit for examination a piece of practical independent work of their own choosing and design. He decided to carry out and report on some simple experiments to measure the growth of selected plants under dif ferent conditions -his first attempt at trying to obtain reportable quantitative data to describe basic