Robert Gillies Biography
Robert Towers Gillies (1876:– 26 July 1941) was an Australian politician.
He was born on the Paterson River to farmers Dugald and Mary Gillies. He attended public school at Pimlico and worked as a blacksmith. Around 1903 he married Mabel Elsie McKeever, with whom he had six children. He farmed at Cudgera from around 1908, before relocating to Tweed Heads around 1922, where he became a contributor to the Tweed Daily and a councillor from 1922 to 1925. In 1925 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative *embly as one of the Labor members for Byron, but he was expelled in 1927 for his opposition to Jack Lang. He later joined the right-wing All for Australia League. After leaving politics he became a commercial agent in Fairfield and then at Lismore before returning to Tweed Heads around 1935. Gillies died at Tweed Heads in 1941.
