Sir John Basil Rowland Grindrod KBE[1] (14 December 1919[2] – 4 January 2009) was an English-born Australian Anglican bishop.
He served as a curate at St Michael's Hulme, Manchester and then in Bundaberg, Queensland.
He was afterwards the Archbishop of Brisbane[7] 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.