Leopold Hartley Grindon

Leopold Hartley Grindon (28 March 1818 – 20 November 1904) was an English educator and botanist, and a pioneer in adult education. His plant collection and botanical drawings and writings formed a major asset of the herbarium at Manchester Museum, when it was founded in 1860.

Early life Leopold Hartley Grindon was born in Bristol on 28 March 1818 and educated at Bristol College. He established the Bristol Philobotanical Society while still at school. He moved to Manchester at the age of 20, spending a year as an apprentice in a warehouse before becoming a cashier for John Whittaker & Company's cotton business until 1864. He attended the Mechanics' Institute and was appointed to lecture on botany at the Manchester Royal School of Medicine, while offering private tuition in the subject. She outlived him and donated a large stained-glass window to Manchester Central Library in his memory. The window, designed by Robert Anning Bell, is above the entrance to the library's Shakespeare Hall.

Publications Frontispiece to The Manchester Flora, a Leo. H. Grindon book published in 1859. Among Grindon's publications, many written while still employed as a cashier, are:

Manchester Walks and Wild Flowers (1858)

The Fairfield Orchids (1872)

History of the Rhododendron (1876)

Grindon also contributed to many journals and to the Manchester City News,