Selected list of publications on La Trobe and associated topics


The following members of the Society have published on the life and work of Charles Joseph La Trobe:

Alsop, Peter, ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe and Geelong’, La Trobeana, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2006.


Barnes, John, ‘Hunting the Buffalo with Washington Irving: La Trobe as Traveller and Writer’, La Trobe Journal, No. 71, Autumn 2003.


Grant, Donald W M, Genealogy of the La Trobe Family, published in The Genealogist (Official journal of the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies Inc.), Volume 1, No. 8, December 1975, pp. 186-207, illus., tables.


Reilly, Dianne, ‘The Charles Joseph La Trobe Archive: an overview’, La Trobe Library Journal No.58, Spring 1996.

_____ ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe, A Colonial Governor’, Proceedings of the La Trobe International History Symposium, Paris, 8-11 May, 1997.

_____ Charles Joseph La Trobe: Landscapes and Sketches. Notes by Victoria Hammond. Melbourne: State Library of Victoria, Tarcoola Press and National Trust of Australia (Victoria), 1999.

_____ ‘Duties of No Ordinary Difficulty’: Charles Joseph La Trobe and the Goldfields Administration’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 72, Nos. 1 & 2, September 2001.

_____ ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe: An Appreciation’, La Trobe Journal, No. 71, Autumn 2003.

_____ ‘The Creation of a Civil Servant: La Trobe in the West Indies’, La Trobe Journal, No. 71, Autumn 2003.

_____ ‘La Trobe’s Marriage with his ‘Deceased Wife’s Sister’, La Trobe Journal, No.71, Autumn 2003.

_____ Charles Joseph La Trobe: the making of a Governor, Melbourne University Publishing, March 2006.

_____ Charles Joseph La Trobe: Australian Notes 1839-54, Tarcoola Press, November 2006.

_____ Charles Joseph La Trobe: a Biography – in preparation.

_____ ‘La Trobe’s Discovery of Cape Otway’, La Trobeana, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2006.


Shaw, A G L, (ed.) Gipps-LaTrobe Correspondence, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1989.


Woodhouse, Fay, ‘Jolimont: Three Side of a Square’, La Trobeana, Vol 2, No. 2, 2004.

_____ ‘La Trobe in South Gippsland’, La Trobeana, Vo. 4, No. 1, 2006.