PILLANS, FRANCIS SCOTT (1810-89), the son of James Pillans, of Myres Castle, Fifeshire, was born and educated in Edinburgh and travelled considerably in Europe. He arrived in Port Chalmers in the Mooltan (1849), and took up land at Inch Clutha, where he was the first settler after Redpath. He was a justice of the peace, and in 1863 was called to the Legislative Council, of which he was a member for ten years. Owing to the death of his brother, on his way to settle in Otago, Pillans retired from public life and devoted himself to his own affairs and his chief hobby, pisciculture. He owned the Manuka Island estate, Hillend. Pillans died on 12 Dec 1889.

Hocken; Cycl. NZ, iv; Otago Daily Times, 14 Dec 1889; NZ Graphic, 18 Feb 1898 (p).

Reference: Volume 2, page 87

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