Benjamin Glennie

The Reverend Benjamin Glennie (29 January 1812 – 30 April 1900) was a pioneer Anglican clergyman in the Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia.

[2] In January 1848, Benjamin Glennie arrived in Sydney in the party of Dr William Tyrrell, first Anglican Bishop of Newcastle.

On 20 August 1848, Glennie presided over the first service of the Church of England on the Darling Downs at the Royal Bull's Head Inn at the town Drayton (now a suburb of Toowoomba).

[1] By the end of 1850, Glennie had built a slab hut with a shingle roof as his parsonage at Drayton with two of the rooms being used for the church.

Glennie established four churches on the Darling Downs for each of the four apostles: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

[12] On Sunday 31 March 1940, 500 people attended a ceremony to place a cairn to mark the site of the first church on the Darling Downs in memory of its founder Reverend Glennie.