Jonathan Binns Were CMG (25 April 1809 – 6 September 1885)[1] was an Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and a stockbroker — the eponym of JBWere.
It is hard to escape the conclusion that they were an ascendant family who gained the capricious attention of the Burkes and then lost it.
[5] He travelled from Plymouth aboard the William Metcalfe from July to November 1839, when he arrived at Port Phillip, now Victoria (Australia), with his wife, infant son Jonathan Henry (later a partner in J.
"[6] In 1852, Were unsuccessfully contested South Bourke for a seat in the original unicameral Victorian Legislative Council, Henry Miller defeating him.
[1] Four years later Were was returned to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Brighton, in opposition to John Dennistoun Wood.