Osmond Gilles [SEP] date of death
Osmond Gilles
Osmond Gilles (24 August 1788 – 25 September 1866) was a settler, pastoralist, mine owner and South Australia’s first colonial treasurer.
Born in London of Huguenot descent, in 1816 he went into partnership with Philip Oakden in Hamburg, Germany as a merchant, where in 1825 he married Patience Oakden, Philip's sister. They returned to England, where his wife died in 1833. They had no children, and Gilles never remarried, but took on several protegees, including his nephew John Jackson
- 24 August – Osmond Gilles, South Australian colonial treasurer (d. 1866)
- 24 October – John Burdett Wittenoom, Swan River Colony clergyman (d. 1855)
- "date unknown"
- Charles Fraser, botanist (d. 1831)
- Frederick Goulburn, first Colonial Secretary of New South Wales (d. 1837)
- Frederick Irwin, acting Governor of Western Australia (d. 1860)
- John Ovens, explorer (d. 1825)
- Thomas Pamphlett, convict and castaway (d. 1838)