Lived at Bath where he did most of his entomological collecting and died. Added Amara nitida Sturm to the British list. Published a number of articles about beetles in Journ. Micr. nat. Sci. including 'On Mounting Beetles and other Insects without Pressure' (4, 1885, pp.151-154); 'The Mouth organs and other Characteristics of the British Geodephaga’ (5, 1886, pp.10-24); ‘Whirligig Beetles' (6, 1887, pp.34-40) and 'The external Anatomy of the Dor Beetle' (ibid., pp.88-95). In EMM. he published ‘Coleoptera in the neighbourhood of Bath' (23, 1886, p.161). With A. Ford he published 'Notes of the Season' in ERJV., 1, 1890, pp.250-251. Simon Hayhow informs me that there are specimens in the Hall Collection at Oldham from Bath bearing the name Gills which is presumably a misprint for Gillo. There is a brief obituary in EMM., 27, 1891, p.200. Duff (1993), p.3 records that Gillo was ‘the first local man to make extensive studies of Somerset beetles... Gillo’s collection passed to the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution probably in 1914, and in 1933 was displayed in glass topped boxes around the walls of one of the rooms in the Institution’s premises... The collections... are currently inaccessible and uncurated, and it is likely that extensive damage has taken place to any surviving entomological material’. (MD 1/03, 10/03)
Dates
d.1891