Henry Gullett (20 January 1837 – 4 August 1914) was an English-born Australian journalist and politician. He was born in

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to stonemason Henry Gullett. He migrated to Australia in 1853 to follow the gold rush, and then worked on his father's farm at

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in Victoria. He returned to England in 1861, and then to Australia in 1863 to work as a journalist for the '' Argus''. In 1872 he married fellow journalist Lucy Willie, with whom he had four daughters. Their daughter,

Lucy Gullett Lucy Edith Gullett (28 September 1876 – 12 November 1949) was an Australian medical practitioner and philanthropist. Early life and education Lucy Edith Gullett was born in Hawthorn in Melbourne to journalist Henry Gullett and Lucy, ''né ...

would go on to pursue a medical career. He was editor of the ''Australasian'' in Melbourne (1872-1885). Gullett spent time in

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as an editor and from 1885 was based in Sydney as assistant editor of the ''

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''. In 1890 he and the rest of the editorial staff resigned over a policy issue, although he remained with the newspaper as a director. Strongly in favour of

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, he was acting editor of the ''

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'' during the 1898 referendum. He was again an editor at the ''Daily Telegraph'' from 1901 to 1903. In 1908 he was appointed to the

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as a

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; he remained there until his death at

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in 1914.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography
1837 births 1914 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council Australian journalists English emigrants to colonial Australia The Argus (Melbourne) people The Sydney Morning Herald editors People from Devon {{Australia-politician-stub