John Joseph Shillinglaw FRGS, (30 September 1831 – 26 May 1905), was a public servant, author and historian in Australia.
[1] Along with his father and brothers, John Joseph emigrated to Victoria, arriving in October 1852.
[2] In 1856 he was selected as Government Shipping Master, to administer certain of the Imperial laws relating to seamen, then just adopted in Victoria, and in this position he remained until, on a general reduction in the departments in 1869, he retired from the Civil Service with compensation.
He published "Arctic Discovery" in 1850, and in 1865 edited "Cast Away on the Aucklands," a book which the Times said was as interesting as Robinson Crusoe.
Some early annals of the colony, which he discovered in 1878, were printed by Parliament under the title of "Historical Records of Port Phillip.