Career
They had been recruited as agricultural labourers from an English village named Sullington in West Sussex, and were indentured to work for Colonel Peter Latour for a period of seven years. Gallop married Margaret Drew in November 1842 and they had six children: Richard (born 1843), Mary (born 1846), Anne (born 1848), Thomas (born 1851), John (born 1854) and Walter Edward Joseph (born 1857). He was included in the list of 100 most influential West Australian business leaders (1829–2013) published in The West Australian newspaper, for his contribution to the development of agriculture in Western Australia.
Gallop is the great great uncle of Geoff Gallop, Premier of Western Australia in the early 2000s.
