Sir John Basil Rowland Grindrod KBECareer highlights (14 December 1919Burke’s Peerage – 4 January 2009) was an English-born Australian Anglican bishop. He was the Primate of Australia from 1982 to 1989.
Grindrod was born in Aughton, Lancashire, England."The Most Reverend John Grindrod ", The Daily Telegraph, 27 January 2009. He was educated at Repton School; Queen's College, OxfordWho's Who 2008: London, A & C Black (MA Oxon); and Lincoln Theological College. He was ordained a deacon in 1949 and a priest in 1952. He served as a curate at St Michael's Hulme, Manchester and then in Bundaberg, Queensland. He held incumbencies at All Souls' Ancoats, Manchester; and, moving to Australia, in Emerald, Queensland and North Rockhampton, Queensland while Archdeacon of Rockhampton.;Crockford's clerical directory1975-76 Lambeth< Church House, 1976 and Christ Church, South Yarra.Vicars of CCSY
Grindrod was the Bishop of Riverina from 1966 to 1971 and then Bishop of Rockhampton from 1971 to 1981. He was afterwards the Archbishop of BrisbaneList of archbishops until 1989, additionally serving as Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia from 1982 to 1989. He took Australian citizenship in 1982 and was awarded a knighthood (KBE) in the 1983 New Year's Day Honours for services to religion.
Most of Grindrod's retirement years were spent in Murwillumbah in northern New South Wales then, from 2006, in Helensvale on the Gold Coast. He died, aged 89, on 4 January 2009, after a long illness.Grindrod, Sir John Basil (1919–2009), Obituaries Australia Website
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External links Grindrod, Sir John Basil (1919–2009), Anglican Obituaries Website