Background
He was born at Bathurst to solicitor William Hellyer and Margaret Gray.
He was born at Bathurst to solicitor William Hellyer and Margaret Gray.
A solicitor, he practised from 1867, first in Sydney, then in Parramatta from 1869, Bathurst from 1878, and Sydney again from 1886. In 1882 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Macquarie, but he resigned in 1884. Hellyer died at Liverpool in 1889.