Grindlay is a surname from northern and central England, most notably associated with the

Anglo Anglo is a prefix indicating a relation to, or descent from England, English culture, the English people or the English language, such as in the term ''Anglosphere''. It is often used alone, somewhat loosely, to refer to people of British d ...

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

knightly

Grindlay family The Grindlay family (Old English: ompound (linguistics), compound''Grēne''/''Grynde'' + ''Leāh''/''Leā'') is an Anglo-Scottish people, Scottish knightly family of medieval origin. The family now has two primary branches, one in the Engli ...

. Notable people with the surname include: *

Alfred Robert Grindlay Alfred Robert Grindlay CBE, JP (1 February 1876 – 14 April 1965) was an English inventor, industrialist and official during the 19th and 20th centuries. He co-founded Grindlay Peerless, the motorcycle engineering company and was Mayor o ...

(1876 – 1965), British inventor, industrialist and politician * Alfred Stephen Chaplin Grindlay (b. 1909), British industrialist *

Bruce Grindlay Bruce Grindlay (born 1967) is a British organist, conductor, teacher and was previously the Headmaster at Sutton Valence School. Grindlay finished his schooling in Canada and studied at the Royal Canadian College of Organists as well as the Roy ...

(born 1967), British organist, conductor, teacher * James G. Grindlay (1840 – 1907), American Civil War veteran * Reginald Robert Grindlay (1899 – 1965), British industrialist and prominent Freemason * Robert Melville Grindlay (1786 – 1887), British soldier, artist and banker * Stephen Grindlay (born 1982), Scottish footballer

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