Story: Gillon, Edward Thomas

Members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, June 1885

Members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, June 1885

Photographed with fellow members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery in 1885, Edward Thomas Gillon (third from right, front row) was also a fearless and influential editor of Wellington's Evening Post who could write 'with vitriol almost as easily as with the milk of human kindness'.

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Leslie Verry. 'Gillon, Edward Thomas', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1993, updated December, 2005. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2g9/gillon-edward-thomas (accessed 26 April 2024)