Benjamin Hill Gillman (19 February 1870 – 14 March 1945) was a traffic manager of South Australian Railways.
[2] Gillman was educated at the Model School on Sturt Street, where he was an exhibition-winning student in 1883[3] transferring to St Peter's College, where he was one of their best all-round athletes and a popular participant in amateur theatricals.
[5] John Newland MP, an ex-railways employee, had a vital part in its formation, and acted as its first secretary.
[citation needed] In 1891 Gillman and another Railways employee, James Wardlaw Gordon,[12] founded the Modern Pickwick Club, an exclusive association of bachelors "for the intellectual and social improvement of members".
[13] Gillman and his friend Norman Malcolm, also a "Modern Pickwickian", married daughters of James Marshall, thereby exempting themselves from membership.