Charles+La+Trobe

 **//__ Governor Charles Joseph La Trobe

Home     | Robert Hoddle | Charles La Trobe | John Batman         | Tom Roberts |     John Fawkner     | Joseph Reed           |       [|Reflective Blog]       | Bibliography | Mind Map  //Charles Joseph La Trobe was born in London. When he was a young man he was a botanist, geologist    , musical amateur, sketcher and many people thought that none of these positions would have qualified him for the responsibility of Governor of Port Phillip. ** He arrived in Melbourne on the 30th of September 1835 and was named superintendent for Port Phillip on the 3rd of October 1839. He finished this position on the 15th of July 1851 – twelve years later. He was the first lieutenant governor and he brought lots of things with him to the position. One of those things was a wife named Hanna Sims and the other was a cottage. The cottage still stands today here in Melbourne in the Kings Domain and it was there that his only son Christian LaTrobe was born  When he came to govern many violent acts against the Aboriginals were taking place. The Whyte brothers were amongst many who were considered ring leaders.

Charles La Trobe wrote a letter and it said,   Charles La Trobe was influential in starting the uprising of the Eureka Stockade and he created the Botanical Gardens in Melbourne, which still flourish today. He had many ideas about distributing wealth but did not understand how to retain the money. As a result he left the whole colony bankrupt.  In 1835 Charles La Trobe was to be eventually replaced by Governor Hotham, Later on that year his wife fell sick and she returned to Switzerland, She did not recover from her illness and died. He was never to see her again.   Charles Joseph La Trobe also eventually succumbed to old age and lost his eye sight. He got no pension from the authorities and died in 1835. Before he died he sent his documents back down to Melbourne for future reference. We have now got a whole library collection of his work.
 * fffffffffff || ”you will regret to hear that there has been more than one serious affray between the settlers in the distant parts of the districts between the blacks and the whites. All I can do is to get at the truth and the result is ordinarily anything but satisfactory. I fear as I have before said that these are only the beginning of troubles, for I do not see that we possess at present ether moral or the physical, the power of prevention and an increase of force seems absolutely necessary, and I should say that it would be quite fair that the squatter should be made by a direct tax for that purpose to stand to the expense. It is hardly fair that because it suits his purpose to keep beyond the ordinary bounds within which the law can extend its arm to protect or punish, government should be compelled to stand to the whole expense of widening the circuit of its power to include him at each remove within it.“ || <span style="color: rgb(255,255,255);">fffffffff ||

What We Think of Charles La Trobe:**

It was good that La Trobe decided to make lots of parks all around Melbourne. It was also cool how he helped the Eureka stockade. He also helped stop the violence against Aboriginal people. //