Benjamin Glennie

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

Benjamin Glennie was born on 29 January 1812 in Dulwich, Surrey, England; his parents were William Glennie, the principal of a private school in Dulwich, and his wife Mary (née Gardiner).

He was educated at King's College School, London and then Christ's College, Cambridge where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1847.

In January 1848, Benjamin Glennie arrived in Sydney in the party of Dr William Tyrrell, first bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales. Tyrrell appointed Glennie as deacon to the Moreton Bay district. Although based in Brisbane, Glennie across travelled to Ipswich and to the Darling Downs for services. 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).

Tyrrell appointed Glennie as vicar of Moreton Bay in 1849. On 29 July 1850, Tyrrell appointed him as the vicar for the Darling Downs, resident at Drayton, in the parish of St. Matthew's. By the end of 1850, he had built a slab hut with a shingle roof as his parsonage at Drayton with two of the rooms being used for the church.

From 1860 to 1872, Glennie was vicar of Warwick. He was also concurrently the archdeacon of Brisbane from 1860 to 1886.

On 14 October 1868, he married Mary Broughton Crawshaw at St John's Cathedral in Brisbane.

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