Charles joseph latrobe biography sample

  • Charles Joseph La Trobe was born on 20 March, 1801, in London, within the sound of Bow Bells, the son of Christian Ignatius and Hannah La Trobe.
  • It's time to take a closer look at who Charles La Trobe was, and what his legacy really is.
  • Charles Joseph La Trobe was an author, artist and ex-missionary who had helped in the dismantling of slavery in the West Indies.

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    Charles Joseph La Trobe – Early Life


    Charles Joseph La Trobe was born on 20 March, 1801, in London, within the sound of Bow Bells, the son of Christian Ignatius and Hannah La Trobe. The La Trobe family was of Huguenot origin, having disseminated around Europe from Montauban in France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. Christian Ignatius La Trobe, an accomplished musician and composer, and a friend of Franz Josef Haydn, was a Moravian missionary, and a friend of William Wilberforce, the English Member of Parliament who had devoted his life, and his considerable fortune, to the abolition of slavery.  More…

    Charles Joseph’s education and religious upbringing were in the Moravian faith, a protestant, non-conformist and evangelical denomination which traces its history to the fifteenth-century bohemian brethren in Moravia, a part of what is now the Czech Republic. His artist talent was fostered and encouraged in his youth. As the son of a gentleman, he

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    Booklet, The School of Mines Ballaarat: Descriptive papers relating to the institution by the special reporter of "The Ballarat Star", 1875 (exact)

    The booklet comprises of a series of papers published in the Ballarat Star, with some revisions. The Administrative Council hoped the publication would increase interest in Technical Education, especially the Art of Mining. He would also hope the public would recognise the Ballarat School of Mines as an institution adapted to supply technical education. The Ballarat School of Mines Council listed at the front of the book includes: Redmond Barry (President and Trustee), Judge Rogers (Vice-President), Somerville Livingstone Learmonth (Trustee), Rivett Henry Bland (Trustee), Charles Gavan Duffy, John A. MacPherson (MLA), William McLellan (MLA), Duncan Gillies (MLA), F. McCoy (University of Melbourne), John I. Bleasdale, W.H. Barn

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    Bib ID:
    1400838
    Format:
    Book
    Author:
    Gross, Alan
    Description:
    • Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1980
    • ix, 157 p., [7] p. of plates : geneal. table ; 22 cm.
    ISBN:
    0522842100
    Full contents:
    Includes index.
    Notes:
    • Originally published: Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1956.
    • Bibliography: p. 151-153.
    Subject:
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    Publication date:
    1980

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