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[[File:Gov LaTrobe-wiki.jpg|500px|thumb|right|''Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe'' <br />Courtesy Ballarat Heritage Services]]
 
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[[File:Latrobe-SLV- H92.360-162 .jpg|500px|thumb|right|''Charles Joseph La Trobe - study'' by Sir Francis Grant. This portrait of La Trobe was subscribed for by the colonists of Victoria in 1855.It hangs in the Melbourne Town Hall Melbourne. Two less finished versions were also made by the artist for the family. This version was done for La Trobe himself and remained in the family until it was donated to the State Library of Victoria in 1954.State Library of Victoria (H92.360/162}]]
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[[File:Latrobe-SLV- H92.360-162 .jpg|500px|thumb|right|''Charles Joseph La Trobe - study'' by Sir Francis Grant. This portrait of La Trobe was subscribed for by the colonists of Victoria in 1855. It hangs in the Melbourne Town Hall Melbourne. Two less finished versions were also made by the artist for the family. This version was done for La Trobe himself and remained in the family until it was donated to the State Library of Victoria in 1954. State Library of Victoria Collection (H92.360/162)]]
  
 
==Background==
 
==Background==

Revision as of 22:17, 18 October 2016

Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe
Courtesy Ballarat Heritage Services
Charles Joseph La Trobe - study by Sir Francis Grant. This portrait of La Trobe was subscribed for by the colonists of Victoria in 1855. It hangs in the Melbourne Town Hall Melbourne. Two less finished versions were also made by the artist for the family. This version was done for La Trobe himself and remained in the family until it was donated to the State Library of Victoria in 1954. State Library of Victoria Collection (H92.360/162)

Background

Governor Charles LaTrobe visited Ballarat towards the end of September 1851.

On 1 August 1853 Governor Charles La Trobe had been presented with a monster petition seeking immediate reform of government administration. The 13 metre petition contained thousands of signatures collected throughout the Victorian goldfields. It was couched in Chartist terms, and caused La Trobe to write to London warning of political unrest. [1]

The East Riding Record Office, Yorkshire, England holds records pertaining to Charles Hotham and Joseph La Trobe.[2] Correspondence 1853-55 includes: "Letter 9 January 1854 Duke of Newcastle to Lieutenant Governor La Trobe on the extraordinary expenses of sending out a governor where there is no established residence, and letters dated 20 March 1854 and 1 May 1854 La Trobe to Newcastle on political affairs, the state of Victoria, accommodation for Hotham, and his personal desire to return to England as soon as possible; correspondence 1854 between Charles Hotham and R. Airy, Horse Guards, obtaining the appointment of Richard Hotham as his A.D.C.; draft of secret and confidential despatch 27 January 1855 Hotham to Secretary of State with reply 1 June 1855 concerning the use of secret service money to control the agitation against the government in the colony; statement 1 February 1855 on the trials of the prisoners from Ballarat".[3]

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

In May 1854 Charles LaTrobe retired.

In June 1854 Lieutenant Governor Charles La Trobe was replaced by Sir Charles Hotham. [4]

Post 1854 Experiences

See also

Chartism

Charles Hotham

Red Ribbon Rebellion

Further Reading

Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.


References

  1. Eureka: The First Australian Republic?, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and Public Record Office Victoria, 1997, p1.
  2. East Riding Record Office, Yorkshire, England, DDHO/10/15
  3. East Riding Record Office, Yorkshire, England, DDHO/10/15
  4. Supplement to the Ballarat Courier, 27 March 1998, p. 3.

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