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- 1842
- Died
- 1891
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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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- 'The Shadow of Sorrow', The Pioneer, A. Timmann., Adelaide, 2 November 1891, p. 1. [
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