Sir Selwyn Macgregor Grier KCMG (1 April 1878 – 8 November 1946) was a British colonial administrator, Governor-in-Chief of the Windward Islands from 1935 to 1937.
[1] He was the eldest child of Richard Macgregor Grier (1835 – 1894), the then rural dean of Rugeley and prebendary of Lichfield, and his wife, Grace Allen.
[2] His sister, Lynda Grier, was a British educational administrator, and the principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, from 1921 to 1945.
He then joined the Colonial Service and went out to Nigeria as Assistant Resident in Zaria Province in 1906, being later transferred to Bauchi in 1912 and to Ibadan in 1913.
From 1921 to 1925 he served as Secretary for Native Affairs and in 1925 was appointed Director of Education of the Southern Provinces.