Duncan Gillies
Contents
Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Post 1854 Experiences
Obituary
- The Hon. D. Gillies, who had bean identified with the political history of Victoria during the past 40 years, expired from heart failure whilst taking a bath on Saturday morning last. Deceased was 70 years old. Whilst acting as Agent-General in London he married a well-connected widow, named Mrs Sillals, who is at present carrying on business in South Africa. The late Mr Gillies was a native of Glasgow (Scotland) and began his career as a clerk in the General Post Office of his native city. He was the first representative of Ballarat West (where he worked for a time as a miner) in the Assembly, and, though he took no part in the Eureka Stockade he was contemporaneous with a previous Speaker of the Assembly the late Mr Peter Lalor. He started in politics as a democrat but died as a conservative and as the representative of Toorak (Melbourne)-a place described by one section of the daily Press as 'the invulnerable fortress of Toryism.[1]
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
- ↑ North Eastern Ensign (Benella), 18 September 1903.
External links
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