John Gilday
John Theophilus Gilday was a meatworker and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.Biography
Gilday was born in Ballarat, Victoria, to parents Martin Gilday and his wife Honorah. He went to Ballarat State School and became a meatworker in New South Wales. He was a director of the Daily Standard & The Worker newspapers.
On 1 February 1899 he married Mary Walker in Brisbane and together had two sons and two daughters. He died in August 1937 and his funeral proceeded from his late residence in Paddington to the Toowong Cemetery.Gilday, for the Labor Party, held the seat of Ithaca in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from its inception in 1912 until his retirement from politics in 1926.
