Past events - 2024

Sunday – 8 December 2024, 10.30am La Trobe Sunday Service. Charles Joseph La Trobe was remembered on this day. The Vicar of St Peter’s, Rev. Fr Michael Bowie, invited La Trobe Society members and friends to the special service commemorating his death that occurred on 5 December 1875. Venue: St Peter’s Eastern Hill, 15 Gisborne […]

Friday – 6 December 2024, 6.00 – 8.00 pm Christmas Drinks: Gary and Genevieve Morgan, generous supporters of the La Trobe Society, and East Melbourne residents for more than 50 years, kindly invited La Trobe Society members and friends to their home to celebrate the Christmas season. Their personal collection focuses on Australian historical art […]

Tuesday – 15 October 2024, 5.30 – 7.30pm John Auchterlonie Creelman: a ship’s surgeon and colonial doctor, 1848 to 1889, by Lorraine Finlay. An Edinburgh University graduate who arrived in Melbourne in January 1848, Creelman led an eventful career in regional towns as a doctor, a coroner and public vaccinator and was a medical witness […]

Sunday – 6 October 2024, 1 – 4pm  Garden Day at La Trobe’s Cottage. Spring Opening of the charming garden, with an emphasis on the heritage plants that La Trobe favoured. Tours of the garden scheduled for 1.15, 2.15 and 3.15pm; in addition to tours of the house throughout the afternoon (last house tour 3.30pm). […]

Thursday – 1 August 2024, 6.30pm Wattle and Queen: The Alexandra Club, a club like none other – address by Loreen Chambers, historian and former vice-chair of the La Trobe Society. Venue: Alexandra Club, 81 Collins Street, Melbourne. Cost: $120 per person. (La Trobe Society event – guests are welcome)

Sunday – 28 July 2018, 10–3pm (last tour 2.30pm) Visitors to were be able to gain an insight into the role played by prefabricated housing for the early settlers in Melbourne, and of family life at the humble home of Charles Joseph La Trobe, Victoria’s first Governor.

Thursday – 18 July, 6.30pm. Noted Donors and Donations to the Melbourne Public Library Collections  – by Shane Carmody, Historian and former Director State Library Victoria. Venue: Tonic House, 386 Flinders Lane, Melbourne. Refreshments. No charge. (La Trobe Society event, sponsored by Roy Morgan Research and Tonic House)

Tuesday – 16 April 2024, 5.30 – 7.30pm Anti-Slavery and Protection in Port Phillip and New South Wales: The Curious Colonial Afterlife of the 1837 Select Committee Report on Aborigines, by Professor Penelope Edmonds, Matthew Flinders Professor, History, Flinders University, South Australia, author of Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous peoples and settlers in 19th-century Pacific Rim cities. […]

Sunday – 17 March 2024, 4.30 – 6.30pm La Trobe Family Portraits: Important portraits of Charles Joseph’s father Christian Ignatius La Trobe and grandfather Rev. Benjamin La Trobe were on display after extensive conservation. Their portraits were painted by renown artists Thomas Barber and John Astley and were donated to the National Trust by two […]