Gilfillan, George, a critic and essayist, born at Comrie, minister of a Dissenting congregation in Dundee from 1836 to his death; a writer with a perfervid style; author of “Gallery of Literary Portraits,” “Bards of the Bible,” etc., and editor of Nichol's “British Poets,” which extended to 48 vols. (1817‒1878).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Giles, St. * Gillespie, George