Cirrus@Austlit

Printer and publisher Hussey and Gillingham began business in Adelaide in 1888, when George Frederick Hussey and J. W. Gillingham purchased the printing business Carey and Page. The firm occupied purpose-built premises at 106-108 Currie Street in Adelaide from 1906 to 1987. Hussey and Gillingham became a limited company in 1911.

Hussey and Gillingham were primarily printers, but undertook some publishing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This included poetry (much of it probably privately published), illustrated material descriptive of South Australia, and some monumental cyclopedic and commemorative histories of Adelaide, South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia. Between 1906 and 1909 the firm published the illustrated satirical magazine The Gadfly.

When G. F. Hussey retired in 1921 the firm was known for a period as Hussey and Swann. It became Gillingham and Co. around 1925, and in recent years simply Gillingham, a prominent South Australian printer with branches in Sydney and Melbourne.

Another member of the Hussey family, Henry Hussey, was a printer and publisher in Adelaide in the 1850s, independently and in partnership as Hussey and Gall, Hussey and Shawyer, and Hussey, Shawyer and Gall.