John Gillies, a Scottish historian, born in Brechin, Forfarshire, Jan. 18, 1747, died in Clapham, near London, Feb. 15, 1836. He was educated at the university of Glasgow, where he became professor of Greek. In 1778 he published a translation of the Orations of Lysias and Isocrates." In 1786 he published in London his "History of Ancient Greece." In 1793, on the death of Dr. Robertson, he was made historiographer royal for Scotland. His principal works, besides those above named, are a "Translation of Aristotle's Ethics and Politics (1804); the-" History of the Ancient World from Alexander to Augustus (London, 1807), which was afterward republished as the second part of his "History of Greece;" and a Translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric (1823).