Background
O'REILLY, Christopher was born in 1835 in Ballybeg, Company Meath, Ireland. Son of Terence O’Reilly.
O'REILLY, Christopher was born in 1835 in Ballybeg, Company Meath, Ireland. Son of Terence O’Reilly.
Home tuition.
Minister of Lands and Works, 1876-1877, and 1878-1882. Stipendiary Magistrate and Commissioner of Mines and Gold Fields at Scottsdale, 1883-1904. President of Royal Commission to enquire into industrial condition of wage earners, etc.
Created a Knight of St. Gregory by Pope Leo XIII., 1882. Member of House of Assembly, Parliament of the State of Tasmania, since 1906. Member of Legislative Council, Tasmania, 1909.