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Accordingly, upon the 25th July, 1839, he embarked for the 

 new settlement of Port Phillip, with his wife and two young 

 children, in a ship freighted by himself with goods suitable 

 to the enterprise. He landed in Australia on the 15th 

 November following, and he was, from the time of his arrival 

 in Melbourne to the date of his death, a leading figure in its com- 

 mercial world. 



He received his magistrate's commission in 1840. He was one 

 of the earliest presidents of the Chamber of Commerce. From 

 1841 to 1851 he was a leader in the agitation which resulted in 

 the separation of the district of Port Phillip from the colony of 

 New South Wales. He was on the committee of the Melbourne 

 Hospital as far back as 1841. In 1854 he joined the Philosophical 

 Society of Victoria, an institution which, with another, event- 

 ually merged into the Koyal Society. He became a member 

 of the council of the latter body shortly after it was established, and 

 subsequently he was elected a life member, in recognition of the 

 valuable services which he had rendered to it. Although of late 

 years he had ceased to take any active part in our proceedings, he 

 ever expressed himself as heartily interested in our work, and as 

 well pleased to hear of our progress. 



The deceased gentleman was also a member of the Royal Society 

 of Antiquaries of Copenhagen. 



Mr. Were represented Brighton in the Legislative Assembly in 

 the year 1856. but he retired for good from politics in the following 

 year. 



He was an ex-director of the Union Bank, and was consul for 

 no less than six different foreign powers. 



He was a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George 

 of Great Britain, a Knight Commander of the Danish Order of the 

 Danneboog, and a Knight of the Swedish Order of Wasa. 



One of the founders of the colony of Victoria, Mr. Were's long 

 colonial career was marked conspicuously by zeal in promoting the 

 interests of his adopted country, by energy and integrity in the 

 management of his business, and by charity and hospitality in his 

 privfce life. 



He died at his residence, " Wellington," Brighton, of a compli- 

 cation of disorders, on the 6th December, 1885, in the seventy- 

 seventh year of his age, leaving behind him a widow — his second 

 wife — four sons, and four daughters. 



