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Early Australian anthropologist and ethnologist
- Francis James Gillen (28 October 1855 – 5 June 1912), also known as Frank Gillen and F. J. Gillen, was an early Australian anthropologist and ethnologist. He is known for his work with W. Baldwin Spencer, including their seminal work The Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899).
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Francis James Gillen (28 October 1855 – 5 June 1912), also known as Frank Gillen and F. J. Gillen, was an early Australian anthropologist and ethnologist. He is known for his work with W. Baldwin Spencer, including their seminal work The Native Tribes of Central Australia (1899).
By then Frank Gillen was officer in charge of the Alice Springs repeater station and therefore a justice of the peace, local magistrate and Sub-Protector of Aborigines. Sitting on top of the rocky hill with his new mate Baldwin Spencer, Gillen was master of all that he surveyed, the most senior civil servant between Port Augusta, 750 miles to ...
Francis James Gillen (1855-1912), ethnologist, was born on 28 October 1855 at Little Para, South Australia, eldest son of Thomas Gillen, agricultural labourer, and his wife Bridget, née McCan. His Irish parents had migrated to Australia in the year of his birth and settled at Clare.
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Francis James Gillen (born Oct. 28, 1855, Clare, near Adelaide, S.Aus., Australia—died June 5, 1912) was an Australian anthropologist who did pioneering fieldwork among the Aborigines of central Australia.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Frank Gillen (1855-1912) was for many years associated with the Overland Telegraph Line that ran between Adelaide and Darwin, and in 1892 was appointed the post and telegraph stationmaster at Alice Springs.
Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen both came to Australia in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Gillen arrived in Adelaide from Ireland, still in his mother's womb, in 1855 and was born later that year, while Spencer, born in England in 1860, migrated to Melbourne as a young man in 1887.
Francis James Gillen (1855-1912) was born on 28 October 1855 at Little Para, South Australia to Irish-born parents. Gillen joined the South Australian postal service in the late 1860s and began working on the overland telegraph line, at Charlotte Waters in 1875, before being appointed Alice Springs telegraph station master in 1892.
