Person Gillies; John (1747 - 1836) Gillies John 1747 - 1836 British Male Brechin, Forfarshire 18 January 1747 Clapham, London 15 February 1836

Education: University of Glasgow; LLD (1784) Career: Went abroad as a Tutor and lived many years in Germany; returned to England (1784); Historiographer Royal for Scotland (1793); wrote a 'History of Greece ' (1786); translated Aristotle, Lysias; lived in retirement in Clapham Memberships: FSA Fellow 29/01/1789 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1836 No 27 p 438 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 18 Jan 1747 - 15 Feb 1836 NA6054 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 0570664c-0e5b-4ea1-a710-10fc04d7e911