• Name: Gillies, John
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: 18  January  1747
• Death Date: 15  February  1836
• Occupation: ancient historian
• Occupation: classical scholar

The appearances of Gillies (and Gillies’s) offer no real clue to the identity of this person – however, there’s a John Gillies in the DNB with appropriate dates (1747–1836). Gillies’s principal work was a history of Greece, but he also translated two of Aristotle's works, Nicomachean Ethics and Politics. According to the DNB, the ‘second edition of 1804 added a reply to criticism by the Platonist Thomas Taylor’. Gillies’s earlier appearances tend to be at Paradise’s, and include this beguiling entry: Apr. 18. Su. Dine at Holcroft's : tea Paradise's, with sir R. A's Truchement , B. Hollis, Rutledge, Planta, Nollekens, Hawkins, Gillies, Russian chaplain, Cyclops. '

The dates and the circles (Kippis, Planta, Hollis) do seem to match up - so that this identification can be considered probable. 1788 - Dinner at Cadel's with Sheffield, Kippis, Fullaston, Reynolds.
1790 - tea Paradise's, with sir R. A's Truchement , B. Hollis, Rutledge, Planta, Nollekens, Hawkins, Gillies, Russian chaplain, Cyclops.
1790 - tea Paradise's, with. B. Hollis, others, and Gillies
1792 - tea Paradise's. with B. Hollis and others
1793 - Paradise's with Planta etc
1793 - Paradise's with Planta etc
1793 - Paradises's with etc
1793 - sup at Perry's with Porson, Holcrofts etc
1793 - Sup at Wrights with Holcroft, Porson, Perry, Dignum
1794 - Sup at Perry's with Robinson, Agar, Bankes advs

• DNB

This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.