Background
George Brockwell Gill was born in 1857 in the Lambert district of Surrey, England.
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Career
Many of the buildings he designed are heritage-listed. Gill emigrated from London and settled in Ipswich in 1886 where he commenced work as an architect for the firm of Samuel Shenton. Gill took over Shenton"s practice in 1889 when Shenton retired.
Gill had been elected Associate of the Queensland Institute of Architects in 1904 and Fellow by 1913.
He was its Vice-President in 1914-1916 and President in 1918-1919. Significant works include:
Baptist Church, Ipswich
Bostock Chambers
Charleville War Memorial
City View Hotel
Esk War Memorial
Fairy Knoll
Ipswich Flour Mill
Hotel Metropole, West Ipswich
Ipswich Club House
Ipswich Girls Grammar School
Ipswich Grammar School
Marburg Community Centre and First World War Memorial
Queen Victoria Silver Jubilee Memorial Technical College
Soldiers" Memorial Hall, Ipswich
Street Paul"s Young Men"s Club
Uniting Church Central Memorial Hall
Woodlands
George Gill retired to Coolangatta in 1942, where he surfed every morning until about 1951.
Aged 97 years, he died at his home at Rutledge Street, Coolangatta on 1 June 1954 following a short illness, a few days short of his 70th wedding anniversary. He was privately cremated at Mount Thompson Crematorium.
This Wikipedia article was originally based on "The Queensland heritage register" published by the State of Queensland under Central Committee-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 7 July 2014, archived on 8 October 2014).
The geo-coordinates were originally computed from the "Queensland heritage register boundaries" published by the State of Queensland under Central Committee-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 5 September 2014, archived on 15 October 2014).
