Thomas Griffin (1580-1615) was an English landowner and hosted the royal family at Dingley. Thomas Griffin was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Griffin of Dingley, Braybrooke, and Gumley Ewing and Lucy Conyers (d. 1620), a daughter of Richard Conyers of Wakerley. A miniature portrait of Thomas Griffin by Nicholas Hilliard has the inscription "Anno Domini 1599, Aetatis Suae 20', he was born early in 1580.