Jeremiah George Ware (21 July 1818 – 22 October 1859) was a pastoralist and politician in colonial

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...

, a member of the

Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The presiding ...

Early life

Ware was born in London, England, son of Jeremiah Ware senior, a grazier.

Colonial Australia

Ware and his family emigrated to

Van Diemen's Land Van Diemen's Land was the colonial name of the island of Tasmania used by the British during the European exploration of Australia in the 19th century. A British settlement was established in Van Diemen's Land in 1803 before it became a sepa ...

, then Ware moved to the

Port Phillip District The Port Phillip District was an administrative division of the Colony of New South Wales from 9 September 1836 until 1 July 1851, when it was separated from New South Wales and became the Colony of Victoria. In September 1836, NSW Colonial Sec ...

around 1838. Ware represented the Polwarth, Ripon, Hampden, South Grenville in the inaugural Victorian Legislative Assembly from November 1856 to August 1859. Ware died in Victoria on 22 October 1859, he had married Anne Young McRobie in 1851.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ware, Jeremiah George 1818 births 1859 deaths Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Politicians from London Australian pastoralists English emigrants to colonial Australia 19th-century Australian politicians 19th-century Australian businesspeople