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La Trobe Society CovidSafe plan

Winter Lecture

Tuesday – 12 July 2022, 5.30-7.30pm Victoria’s Earliest Potteries. Guest Speaker Gregory Hill, who is recognised as the leading authority on Australian Colonial Pottery and Australian Art Pottery. His book, Victoria’s Earliest Potteries, featured convict era potters and Victoria’s earliest pottery which was close to La Trobe’s Jolimont estate. A small exhibition will accompany the […]

La Trobe Society Annual General Meeting and Dinner

Wednesday – 2 August 2022, 6.30pm Mary Mitchell: A Port Phillip Virago. Speaker: Susan Priestley, historian and committee member of the Society and member of its editorial team. This presentation will offer some glimpses of impolite society in early Melbourne. Venue – Melbourne Savage Club, 12 Bank Place, Melbourne. Cost: $95 per person. Enquiries: secretary@latrobesociety.org.au, or phone […]

Friends of La Trobe’s Cottage Annual Lecture

Wednesday – 14 September, 5.30-7.30pm The Lady of St Kilda: a link between the Outer Hebrides and the Antipodes. Speaker John Botham, Chair of Friends of La Trobe’s Cottage and Society webmaster. This illustrated talk explains how the Schooner Lady of St Kilda connected La Trobe’s naming of St Kilda with the remote Scottish island […]

Open Day at La Trobe’s Cottage

Sunday – October 2022 to April 2023, 1 – 3.30pm Spend your afternoon in the beautiful Domain, with a guided tour of the home of our first governor Charles Joseph La Trobe and his family. You will be able to see their elegant yet simple prefabricated house from Melbourne’s early days, surrounded by plants from […]

Paintings of Early Melbourne

Selected times (or as arranged for groups) Exhibition of early Melbourne paintings, lithographs, watercolours and sketches, from the Roy Morgan Research collection. Special tours in conjunction with historic furniture. Venue: Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, Melbourne. Proof of double vaccination will be required. Cost: $8 adults. Bookings  Images

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Charles La Trobe

Charles Joseph La Trobe was the first Superintendent of the Port Phillip District and Lieutenant-Governor of the colony of Victoria.  Learn More..

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The C J La Trobe Society Inc. was formed to promote understanding and appreciation of the life, work and times of Charles La Trobe.  Read More..

La Trobe’s Cottage

La Trobe’s Cottage was the home of Charles Joseph La Trobe, Victoria’s first governor, his wife Sophie and their children from 1839 to 1854. Visit Cottage

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Over 500 images related to Charles Joseph La Trobe, his family and ongoing influence in Melbourne and the state of  Victoria. View Galleries..

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