GILLOW, EDMUND (1837-1931) was born at St Nicholas, Isle of Thanet, and educated at King's School, Canterbury, and Edinburgh. Coming to New Zealand with a brother in the late fifties, they took up the Mararoa run, near Lake Manapouri, which they stocked with sheep from Australia (1858). They afterwards moved to the Narrows, Riverton.

Gillow represented Longwood in the Southland Provincial Council in 1864, and Aparima 1869-70. He then moved to Dunedin, and became interested in mining. Later he went to reside on the West Coast, where he became engineer to the Westport Coal Co. Retiring after many years' service, he remained consulting engineer until his death, which occurred on 11 Sep 1931.

Southland P.C. Proc.; Otago Daily Times, 15 Sep 1931.

Reference: Volume 1, page 165

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