 He set up the practice of Gill & Browne in 1874 before he died but he was then mostly retired and the work of Gill & Brown is almost entirely the work of Thomas Browne alone.Gill lived at 7, Mount Beacon, Bath, from the 1860s.John Elkington Gill's son was Wallace Gill, who in 1879 had his name added to the practice and in 1899 renamed the practice Gill & Morris.