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)
1937โ€“1942, 1945โ€“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 โ€“ 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

  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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