Queen’s University Archives

CA QUA10366
Person
fl. 1930s

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CA QUA00783
Person
16 Aug. 1865-3 Dec. 1962

Mary Jean (Cameron) Gilmore, a prominent Australian socialist poet and journalist, was born on 16 August 1865 at Cotta Walla near Goulburn, New South Wales. After completing her teaching exams in 1882, she accepted a position as a teacher at Wagga Wagga Public School, where she worked until December 1885. After a short teaching spell at Illabo she took up a teaching position at Silverton near the mining town of Broken Hill. There Gilmore developed her socialist views and began writing poetry.
In 1890, she moved to Sydney, where she became part of the "Bulletin school" of radical writers. She followed William Lane and other socialist idealists to Paraguay in 1896, where they had established a communal settlement called New Australia two years earlier. At Lane's breakaway settlement Cosme she married William Gilmore in 1897.
Gilmore's first volume of poetry was published in 1910, and for the ensuing half-century she was regarded as one of Australia's most popular and widely read poets. In 1908 she became women's editor of The Worker, the newspaper of Australia's largest and most powerful trade union, the Australian Workers' Union (AWU). She was the union's first woman member. The Worker gave her a platform for her journalism, in which she campaigned for better working conditions for working women, for children's welfare and for a better deal for the indigenous Australians. Gilmore accepted appointment as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1937, becoming Dame Mary Gilmore.

Gilmour, S. Maclean (Samuel MacLean)

CA QUA00784
Person
1905-1970

Samuel MacLean Gilmour was born at Dauphin, Manitoba, in 1905. He was educated at the University of Manitoba where he recieved a B.A. in 1924. In 1928, he received a B.D. (Old Testament) from the union of Theological Seminary in New York City and in 1937 received a Ph.D. (New Testament) from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Dr. Gilmour had a long and distinguished career as a professor and scholar of theology at Queen's University, and as a minister, chaplain, author and translator. During his career he served as President of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies and of the Canadian Section of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, 1960-1961. He was a member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of Biblical Literature and a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. He died in 1970.

Gina Conquy