The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wearing, Hon. William
Wearing, Hon. William, formerly Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia, was born in London on Nov. 12th, 1816, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A., and was called to the bar of Lincoln's Inn in May 1847. A year later he emigrated to South Australia, and practised at the local Bar, being made Q.C., and subsequently Crown Solicitor. In 1867 he was appointed Third Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia. He was drowned in the wreck of the Gothenburg on the Barrier Reef, Torres Straits, on the night of Feb. 24th, 1875, whilst on his return from holding the first Circuit Court at Palmerston, Northern Territory.