82 Alan Richard Griffiths (l906–93) matriculated at Magdalen in 1925 and read English under Lewis. In SBJ XV, Lewis speaks of him as his ‘chief companion’ on the road to Christianity. In 1931 Griffiths was received into the Catholic Church, and in 1936 he took his solemn vows as a Benedictine monk, at which time he took the name Dom Bede Griffiths. In 1955 he was sent to India, and he remained there for the rest of his life. The story of his joint pilgrimage to the Faith with Lewis is found in The Golden String (1954).