Notable modern members of the English branch of the family include Captain Robert Melville Grindlay, the soldier, painter and founder of Grindlays Bank, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Robert Grindlay, A.Q.M.G, of Her Majesty's 21st Hussars, decorated veteran of the First and Second Anglo-Sikh Wars, Alfred Robert Grindlay, the founder of Grindlay Peerless and Lord Mayor of Coventry during World War II, Major Henry Hugh Grindley, Royal Field artilleryman and overseas railway pioneer, and William Harry Grindley, the 19th century ironstone industrialist and founder of the eponymous W H Grindley.