 Meares akanga ari mwanakomana waGeorge Rochfort Meares, wokuCounty Westmeath, Ireland, uye akatamira kuAustralia, achisvika muSydney muna 1847 ndokutamira kuMelbourne muna 1852. Akanga ari Meya weMelbourne muna 1880 na1881, uye komisheni uye nhengo yekomiti yehutungamiri yeMelbourne International Exhibition 1880. Akaroora muna 1864 Miss Sarah Brooker Dixon, uye akagadzwa C.M.G. muna 1882. 