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LATROBE, CHARLES JOSEPH (18o1–1875)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 275 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LATROBE, See also:CHARLES See also:JOSEPH (18o1–1875) , Australian See also:governor, was See also:born in See also:London on the loth of See also:March 18o1. The Latrobes were of Huguenot extraction, and belonged to the Moravian community, of which the See also:father and grandfather of C. J. Latrobe were ministers. His father, See also:Christian See also:Ignatius Latrobe (1758–1836), a musician of some See also:note, did See also:good service in the direction of popularizing classical See also:music in See also:England by his Selection of Sacred Music from the See also:Works of the most Eminent Composers of See also:Germany and See also:Italy (6 vols., 1806–1825). C. J. Latrobe was an excellent mountaineer, and made some important ascents in See also:Switzerland in 1824–1826. In 1832 he went to See also:America with See also:Count See also:Albert Pourtales, and in 1834 crossed the prairies from New See also:Orleans to See also:Mexico with See also:Washington See also:Irving. In 1837 he was invested with a See also:government See also:commission in the See also:West Indies, and two years later was made See also:superintendent of the See also:Port See also:Philip See also:district of New See also:South See also:Wales. When Port Philip was erected into a See also:separate See also:colony as See also:Victoria in 1851, Latrobe became See also:lieutenant-governor. The See also:discovery of See also:gold in that See also:year attracted enormous See also:numbers of immigrants annually.

Latrobe discharged the difficult duties of government at this See also:

critical See also:period with tact and success. He retired in 1854, became C. B. in 1858 and died in London on the 2nd of See also:December 1875. Beside some volumes of travel he published a See also:volume of poems, The Solace of See also:Song (1837). See Brief Notices of the Latrobe See also:Family (1864), a privately printed See also:translation of an See also:article revised by members of the family in the Moravian Briiderbote (See also:November 1864).

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