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A minister of the Primitive Methodist Church, North Adelaide, Gilmore founded the Society for the Study of Christian Sociology and also a group called the Christian Commonwealth for the assistance for the needy.

He saw the Single Tax as a peaceful method to achieve socialism. Socialism itself he described as 'the law of God'.

See R. B. Walker, 'Gilmore, Hugh (1842 - 1891)', Australian Dictionary of Biography Online.

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Newspaper Articles

• 'The Shadow of Sorrow', The Pioneer, A. Timmann., Adelaide, 2 November 1891, p. 1. Image PDF Details
• 'The Late Hugh Gilmore', The Pioneer, A. Timmann, Adelaide, 14 November 1891, p. 1. Image PDF Details