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Rev. Archibald Charles Gillies was born on February 17, 1834, in Quebec, Canada.
He was a Presbyterian minister and author. He served in several parishes in Quebec, Ontario, and Nova Scotia. In 1882, he became a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is the author of "Daily Meditations. A Collection of Poems" (1860) and "Popery Dissected Its Absurd, Inhuman, Unscriptural, Idolatrous and Antichristian Assumptions, Principles and Practices Exposed from Its Own Standard Works; Being a Series of Unanswered Letters Addressed to the R.C. Bishop of Arichat, N.S. [i.e., C.F. MacKinnon]" (1874).
He died on October 1, 1887, in Dunedin City, Otago, New Zealand.