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He was born at Brechin, in Forfarshire and was educated at the University of Glasgow, where, at the age of twenty, he acted for a short time as substitute for the professor of Greek.
University of Glasgow.
He lived for a while in Germany and returned in 1784. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in January 1789. On the death of William Robertson (1721-1793), Gillies was appointed Historiographer Royal for Scotland.
In his old age he retired to Clapham, where he died on 15 February 1836.
He was the older brother of judge Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies.
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