Person

La Trobe, Charles Joseph (1801 - 1875)

Born
30 March 1801
London, England
Died
4 December 1875
England
Occupation
Governor, Naturalist and Science patron

Summary

Charles La Trobe was the first Superintendent of the Port Phillip District 1839-1851 and then Lieut-Governor of the newly formed Colony of Victoria until 1854. His interest in nature led to the founding of, among other institutions, the Melbourne Botanic Gardens.

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Chronology

1839 - 1851
Career position - Superintendent, Port Phillip District
1851 - 1854
Career position - Lieutenant Governor, Colony of Victoria

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre

  • Governor of Victoria - Records, 1851 - 1910, VPRS 1087; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Governor of Victoria - Records, 1851 - 1906, VPRS 1084; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Governor of Victoria - Records, 1851 - 18541, VPRS 4020; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Governor of Victoria - Records, 1852 - 1857, VPRS 4022; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Governor of Victoria - Records, 1853 - 1908, VPRS 1092; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Governor of Victoria - Records, 1849, VPRS 4106; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Governor of Victoria - Records, 1851 - 1856, VPRS 1085; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Governor of Victoria - Records, 1851 - 1869, VPRS 1086; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Governor of Victoria - Records, 1851 - 1911, VPRS 1404; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Governor of Victoria - Records, 1851 - 1917, VPRS 1083; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Governor of Victoria - Records, 1852 - 1884, VPRS 1090; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Governor of Victoria - Records, 1841 - 1956, VPRS 4325; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Governor of Victoria - Records, 1851 - 1876, VPRS 1088; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Governor of Victoria - Records, 1851 - 1866, VPRS 1089; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Superintendent of Port Phillip District - Records, 1849, VPRS 6925; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

  • Charles Joseph La Trobe - Records, 1845 - 1846, MS 10852; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Barnes, John, La Trobe: traveller, writer, governor (Canberra: Halstead Press, 2017), 384 pp. Details

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • Cohn, Helen M., 'Grevillea latrobei', La Trobeana: the newsletter of the La Trobe Society of Australia, 2 (2) (2004), 5-7. Details
  • Darragh, T. A., 'Ferdinand Mueller and Charles La Trobe', La Trobeana: the newsletter of the La Trobe Society of Australia, 2 (2) (2004), 1-5. Details
  • Darragh, Tom, 'Ferdinand Mueller and Charles La Trobe: 'So many signs of benevolence and favour'', La Trobeana, 11 (3) (2012), 25-9. Details
  • Dwyer, John, 'William Swainson: La Trobe's other botanical appoimtnent', La Trobeana: journal of the C. J. La Trobe Society Inc., 19 (3) (2020), 26-36. https://www.latrobesociety.org.au/LaTrobeana/LaTrobeanaV19n3.pdf. Details
  • Hammond, Victoria, '"Present Position Exile": Charles La Trobe's Tasmanian Months', Island, 76 (1999), 95-104. Details
  • Home, R. W., 'La Trobe's 'honest looking German': Ferdinand Mueller and the botanical exploration of gold-rush Victoria', La Trobeana: the newsletter of the La Trobe Society of Australia, 11 (3) (2012), 9-16. Details

Resources

See also

  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_l.html. Details
  • Chappel, Keith Lytton, Surveying for Land Settlement in VIctoria 1836 - 1960 (Melbourne, Vic.: Office of Surveyor General, Victoria, 1996), 166 pp. Details
  • Enever, Jim, 'A story of human endeavour: the Cape Paterson coal field, Victoria', Journal of Australasian Mining History, 15 (2017), 21-46. Details
  • Murphy, Sean, The Cranbourne meteorite (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly publishing, 2023), 164 pp. Details
  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
  • Willis, Elizabeth, 'Gentlemen Collectors: the Port Phillip District, 1835-1855' in The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections, Peterson, Nicolas, Allen, Lindy and Hamby, Louise, eds (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2008), pp. 113-35. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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