sentences:  In the 1860s, he ran a law practice in Dunedin with William Richmond, a fellow (ex) MP.He died in his Auckland home, after being "seized with apoplexy".Gillies's first wife, Catherine, died in 1865); he married secondly, in 1867, Agnes (d. 1884), daughter of John Sinclair, of Glasgow, niece of Andrew Sinclair, second Colonial Secretary of New Zealand, and sister-in-law of David Bruce.