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John Gilday

John Gilday
StateLibQld 1 65199 Queensland Parliamentary Labor Party (Assembly) Session, 1921.jpg
Queensland Parliamentary Labor Party (Assembly) 1921 - Gilday is third from the left - Second row
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
for Ithaca
In office
27 Apr 1912 – 8 May 1926
Preceded by New seat
Succeeded by Ned Hanlon
Personal details
Born John Theophilus Gilday
1874
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Died 29 August 1937 (aged 62 or 63)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Resting place Toowong Cemetery
Nationality Australian
Political party ALP
Spouse(s) Mary Walker (m.1899 d.1953)
Occupation Meatworker

John Theophilus Gilday (1874 – 29 August 1937) was a meatworker and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Gilday was born in Ballarat, Victoria, to parents Martin Gilday and his wife Honorah (née Corcoran). He went to Ballarat State School and became a meatworker in New South Wales. He was a director of the Daily Standard & The Worker newspapers.

On the 1st February 1899 he married Mary Walker (died 1953) in Brisbane and together had two sons and two daughters. He died in August 1937 and his funeral proceeded from his late residence in Paddington to the Toowong Cemetery.

Gilday, for the Labor Party, held the seat of Ithaca in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from its inception in 1912 until his retirement from politics in 1926.


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