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Audley Gillespie-Jones

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Audley Gillespie-Jones
Personal information
Full name Audley Sinclair Gillespie-Jones
Date of birth (1914-07-01)1 July 1914
Place of birth Swan Hill, Victoria
Date of death 7 May 2000(2000-05-07) (aged 85)
Original team(s) Old Melburnians
Height 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1935 Melbourne 02 (0)
1937–1942, 1945–1946 Fitzroy 49 (5)
Total 51 (5)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1946.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Audley Sinclair Gillespie-Jones (1 July 1914 – 7 May 2000)[1] was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).[2]

He practised as a barrister at the Victorian Bar. He also worked as a football writer for The Argus.

He wrote a series of books of legal anecdotes:

  • The Lawyer Who Laughed
  • The Lawyer Who Laughed Again
  • The Lawyer Who Laughed Longer.

Notes

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  1. ^ "Audley Gillespie-Jones - Player Bio". Australian Football. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  2. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 303. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.
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