Robert Gillies
1835–86
New Zealand surveyor and politician. Member of the New Zealand House of Representatives, 1884–5. A founder member of the Otago Institute in Dunedin. In 1876, engaged in evolutionary debates that clarified the support of the Otago Institute for Darwinism.
Sources
DNZB s.v. Gillies, Harold Delf
Evening Post (New Zealand), 15 June 1886, p. 3
Royal Society Te Apārangi, ‘History of the Otago Institute for the Arts and Sciences’, https://royalsociety.org.nz/assets/documents/Otago-History-Full.pdf (accessed 8 May 2019)
Bibliography
DNZB: A dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by G. H. Scholefield. 2 vols. Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs. 1940. The dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by W. H. Oliver et al. 5 vols. Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs [and others]. 1990–2000.
