Little weekend project
Cover image inspired by Matthew Oey's Reimagining Singapore's History: Essays on Pre-colonial Roots and Modern Identity
Compared to other figures I've worked on, there really doesn't seem to be much on Gillespie. Addtionally, unlike biographers of Raffles, there seems to be a collective agreement amongst Gillespie biographers that he was indeed a great man. Whether or not that is true - I'll leave it up to you to decide.
Most of the printed material came from the John Bastin Collection, which is currently housed in the Central Library at Bugis.
While I've elected to only include Tim Hannigan's book Raffles and the British Invasion of Java in this bibilio, every Raffles biography will have something to say about Gillespie, and usually it's nothing good.
Special thanks to Desmond Rainey and the Comber Historical Society for answering some queries I had on Gillespie.
Feel free to DM / Ask if I've left anything out
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