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Mr Robert Pearce Gillies, and his daughter, Miss Eliza Maria Gillies

Mr Robert Pearce Gillies

Applications

5 (5 successful)

Date period

22 Sep 1830-29 Sep 1866

Awards

  • 20 Jun 1831 (£30)
  • Apr 1838 (£35)
  • 2 Nov 1846 (£40)
  • 2 Jan 1850 (£20)
  • 17 Nov 1859 (£25 - to Eliza Maria Gillies)

Other author name(s)

 - 

Author's career

  • Advocate
  • Editor of the Foreign Quarterly Review

Author's works published

Poetry : also Fiction, Memoir, Journalism

Also named in file

Miss Eliza Maria Gillies (dependent)

Timeline

1831

Robert Pearce Gillies to John Ilderton Burn

20 Jun 1831
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John Ilderton Burn to Joseph Snow

20 Jun 1831
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1830

Printed Summary Statement by Robert Peace Gillies, detailing his arrest for debt

22 Sep 1830-4 Jun 1831
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1831

Robert Pearce Gillies to Joseph Snow

3 Nov 1831
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1838

Robert Pearce Gillies to the Committee of the Literary Fund, including a list of his works

Apr 1838
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W M Boyton to William Jerdan

Apr 1838
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Robert Pearce Gillies to Whittington Henry Landon, with receipt signed Thomas Simpson for Robert Pearce Gillies

12 Apr 1838
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1846

Application Form, Robert Pearce Gillies – endorsed by C G Stuart Menteath, William Hamilton, David James Paterson and John Vernon

2 Nov 1846
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Robert Pearce Gillies to the Committee of the Literary Fund

2 Nov 1846
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Robert Pearce Gillies to the Committee of the Literary Fund, witnessed by William Hamilton

23 Jul 1846
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Edmund Spencer to Robert Pearce Gillies

19 Oct 1846
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1847

William Hamilton to the Committee of the Literary Fund

[16 Jun 1847]
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1846

William Beattie to Octavian Blewitt

1846
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David James Paterson to Robert Pearce Gillies

22 Oct 1846
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Robert Pearce Gillies to Octavian Blewitt

14 Nov 1846
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William Hamilton to Octavian Blewitt

15 Nov 1846
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1848

Printed leaflet advertising for subscriptions for Robert Pearce Gillies and his family

20 May 1848
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Press cuttings on insolvency proceedings pursued against Robert Pearce Gillies

9 May 1848-18 Nov 1848
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1850

Application Form, Robert Pearce Gillies – endorsed by Thomas Roscoe, Cosmo Orme and Richard Bentley

2 Jan 1850
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Robert Pearce Gillies to the Committee of the Literary Fund

2 Jan 1850
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1849

C B Wilson to Robert Pearce Gillies

30 Dec 1849
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1850

Henry Charles Howard, Eral of Arundel, to Octavian Blewitt

24 Jan 1850
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Thomas Roscoe to the Committee of the Literary Fund

12 Jan 1850
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Receipt, signed Robert Pearce Gillies

10 Jan 1850
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Robert Pearce Gillies to the Committee of the Literary Fund

12 Jan 1850
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Henry Charles Howard, Eral of Arundel, to Octavian Blewitt

13 Jan 1850
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1851

Sir Robert Inglis to Octavian Blewitt, seeking information on Robert Pearce Gillies

6 Jul 1851
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1859

Application Form, Eliza Maria Gillies

17 Nov 1859
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Copy of marriage certificate for Robert Pearce Gillies and Emily McDonell Birrington

9 Dec 1859
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Eliza Maria Gillies to the Committee of the Literary Fund

17 Nov 1859
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Richard Bentley to Octavian Blewitt

22 Sep 1859
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1860

George Bentley to Octavian Blewitt

2 Jan 1860
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Eliza Maria Gillies to the Committee of the Literary Fund

19 Jan 1860
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Schedule of payments to Eliza Maria Gillies

13 Jan 1860-12 Sep 1861
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Richard Bentley to Octavian Blewitt

16 Jan 1860
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1866

William J Thomas to Octavian Blewitt, inquiring about the date of Robert Pearce Gillies’ death

29 Sep 1866
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