Harry Gill (other)
Harry Gill may refer to: * Harry Gill (RAF officer) (1922–2008), British World War II fighter pilot and air vice-marshal * Harry Gill (architect) (1858–1925), English architect * Harry Gill (gymnast) (born 1881), British Olympic gymnast * Harry Gill (politician) (1885–1955), British Member of Parliament * Harry Pelling Gill Harry Pelling Gill (9 March 1855 – 25 May 1916), commonly referred to as H. P. Gill or Harry P. Gill, was an English-born Australian art curator, teacher and painter, who lived in Adelaide, South Australia for much of his life. Background Gil ...

Harry Gill (RAF Officer)
Air Vice-Marshal Harry Gill CB OBE (30 October 1922 – 20 January 2008) also known Jimmy, was a British World War II fighter pilot who later rose as air vice-marshal and became the Director-General of Engineering and Supply Policy at the Ministry of Defence in 1976. He also received the King's Silver Medal at Bisley in 1951. Biography Early life Gill was born on 30 October 1922 in Chesterfield, England. He moved to Newark-on-Trent as a child and was educated at Newark Technical College. He trained as a pilot in the United States, he flew Hurricanes (with 279 Sqn) during the war and Mosquito FB.VIs (with 4 Sqn) in the immediate post-war period. His Mosquito, TA 122, is being restored and will be displayed at the de Havilland Museum at London Colney. He died on 20 January 2008. Career He was appointed OBE for his service in Aden Aden ( ar, عدن ' Yemeni: ) is a city, and since 2015, the temporary capital of Yemen, near the eastern approach to the Red Sea (th ...
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Harry Gill (architect)
Harry Gill LRIBA (25 January 1858 - 15 February 1925) was an architect based in Nottingham. Career Harry Gill was born in 1858, the son of William Gill (1824-1891) and Lydia Pinder (1825-1908). He married Elizabeth Pare (b. 1857) and they had a son Harry Percival Gill (b. 1887), also later an architect. He was a pupil articled to Henry Sulley. He then commenced business on his own. He was appointed a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1912. From 1901 to 1908 he took as his assistant his former pupil, Joseph Warburton. He was president of the Nottingham and Derby Architectural Society for five years. He was also an antiquary and archaeologist, and published many articles in the Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire. He also designed war memorials which can be found in All Saints' Church, Nottingham, Shire Hall, Nottingham, and Radcliffe and Southwell. He was responsible for a good deal of ecclesiastical and domestic architecture in the ...
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Harry Gill (gymnast)
Harry Gill (1881 – 1968) was a British gymnast. He competed in the men's team event at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Gill was a member of the Powell's Tillery Gymnastics Club of Abertillery, formed in 1903, and is recorded as a member of the team in 1904, in which year he was a member of the team that competed in the club's first competition, against a team from Newport Newport most commonly refers to: *Newport, Wales *Newport, Rhode Island, US Newport or New Port may also refer to: Places Asia *Newport City, Metro Manila, a Philippine district in Pasay Europe Ireland *Newport, County Mayo, a town on the .... He captained the Powell's Tillery team that won the Welsh Amateur Gymnastics Shield in 1906 and the team that were runners-up in 1907. He subsequently became an instructor. References External links * 1881 births 1968 deaths British male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Great Britain Gymnasts at the 1908 Summer Olympics People from Leomins ...
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Harry Gill (politician)
Sir Thomas Harry Gill (5 December 1885 – 20 May 1955) was a British Labour Party politician, and Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1929 to 1931. Born at Hutton Cranswick, Gill was educated at Driffield Grammar School. He became active in the Railway Clerks' Association, serving as its president from 1919 until 1932. He was also prominent in the York Co-operative Society, serving as its president in 1916. Gill was a supporter of the Labour Party, for which he stood unsuccessfully in York in 1918 and 1922, then switched to contest Blackburn. He was again unsuccessful in 1924, but won the seat in 1929, before losing it in 1931. Out of Parliament, Gill focused his time on the co-operative movement, serving on the board of the Co-operative Wholesale Society from 1932 to 1951, and as its president in 1948, as president of the Co-operative Congress in 1949, and also as president of the International Co-operative Alliance from 1948 to 1955. From November 1948 to January 19 ...
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