George Chetwynd Griffith

Born in Plymouth in 1857 as George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones, he became known professionally as George Griffith. He wrote across several forms, but he is remembered mainly for science fiction and adventure tales, especially the kind of future-war story that imagined new machines, global conflict, and dramatic political change.

His breakthrough came with The Angel of the Revolution in 1893, a hugely popular serial that helped establish his reputation. He went on to produce a large body of fiction, including stories of aerial warfare and interplanetary travel, and for a time he was one of the leading writers in Britain working in what was then often called "scientific romance."

Griffith was also known as a journalist, traveller, and explorer, and that taste for movement and invention runs through his work. Although later overshadowed by H. G. Wells, he remains an important early figure in speculative fiction, especially for readers interested in the bold, imaginative side of late Victorian popular literature.