1873-1948

De­cem­ber 1, 1873, Haw­ley, Hamp­shire, Eng­land.

Au­gust 12, 1948, St. Le­o­nard’s on the Sea, Sus­sex, Eng­land.

Son of the Cur­ate at Haw­ley, Gil­lett was ed­u­cat­ed at West­min­ster School and Ke­ble Coll­ege, Ox­ford (BA 1896). He was or­dained a dea­con in 1898, and priest in 1899, and held cur­a­cies in Lon­don and Bright­on. While do­mes­tic chap­lain to Earl Beau­champ at Ma­dres­field, he con­trib­ut­ed three trans­la­tions and a hymn to the 1906 Eng­lish Hym­nal. He spent time in South Af­ri­ca (1913-25), was an ed­it­or for the So­ci­e­ty for Pro­pa­ga­tion of the Gos­pel (1926-33), and served as chap­lain to the Com­mun­i­ty of St. Pe­ter, St. Le­o­nard’s on the Sea, Sus­sex.

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