Robert Gillies (New Zealand politician)


Robert Gillies was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in the Otago region, New Zealand.
He failed to win the Bruce electorate at the, but won the seat at the general.
However he resigned in 1885 for failing health, which caused the 1885 Bruce by-election.
He died on 15 June 1886 from an aneurysm of the heart. He was the brother of Thomas Gillies and John Lillie Gillies, and the father of surgeon Harold Gillies.