Quintin Bennett Gill (born 27 November 1959) is a British

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking ...

, who was a Member of the

House of Keys The House of Keys () is the directly elected lower house of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, the other branch being the Legislative Council. History The oldest known reference to the name is in a document of 1417, written in L ...

(the lower house of parliament of the

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) for

Rushen Rushen ( ; gv, Rosien), formally Kirk Christ Rushen, is one of the seventeen historic parishes of the Isle of Man. It is located in the south of the island (part of the traditional ''South Side'' division) in the sheading of the same name. A ...

between 2001 and 2011. He had been elected twice: in November 2001 (his first attempt) and in November 2006, before losing his seat in the September 2011 election, to Independent challenger Laurence Skelly. Before he was a politician, he was a social worker and a

probation Probation in criminal law is a period of supervision over an offender, ordered by the court often in lieu of incarceration. In some jurisdictions, the term ''probation'' applies only to community sentences (alternatives to incarceration), such ...

officer. Gill was the chairman of the

Manx Electricity Authority The Manx Electricity Authority ( gv, Lught-reill Lectraghys Manninagh) was a Statutory Board of the Isle of Man Government which generated and supplied electricity for the Isle of Man. In 2014 it became part of the Manx Utilities Authority when i ...

until 2011.

Governmental and parliamentary positions (selection)

* Chairman of the

Isle of Man Office of Fair Trading The Isle of Man Office of Fair Trading ( gv, Oik Dellal Cair Ellan Vannin) is an independent Statutory Board of the Isle of Man Government. The purpose of the office is to enforce criminal consumer protection legislation and advice on civil consum ...

, 2004–08 * Chairman of the

, 2008–11 * Political Member of various government departments, 2002–11 * Deputy Speaker of the House of Keys, 2010–11

Personal life

Gill has been married to Joy (née McCaffrey) since 1989, they have three daughters together and live in Port St Mary, Isle of Man.

References

Living people People from Blackburn Members of the House of Keys 2001–2006 Members of the House of Keys 2006–2011 1959 births {{IsleofMan-politician-stub