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Vol 6, No 2, July 2007 LA TROBEANA Journal of the C. J. La Trobe Society Inc. Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2007 ISSN 1447-4026 La Trobeana Journal of the La Trobe Society of Australia Inc. Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2007 ISSN 1447-4026 For subscription enquiries contact: The Honorary Secretary The La Trobe Society P O Box 65 Port Melbourne Vic 3207 Telephone: 9646 2112 FRONT COVER Thomas Woolner, 1825-1892, sculptor. Charles Joseph La Trobe 1853, diam. 24.0 cm. Bronze portrait medallion showing the left profi le of Charles Joseph La Trobe. Signature and date incised in bronze 1.n. T. Woolner. Sc. 1853:/M La Trobe, Charles Joseph, 1801-1875 Accessioned 1894 La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria. CONTENTS A Word from the President Rodney Davidson 4 La Trobe Fellowship Award 5 A Word from the Treasurer John Drury 6 La Trobe’s 206th Birthday Celebration 6 Forthcoming Events 7 A Monstrous Anomaly: La Trobe and the Legislature John Waugh 8 La Trobe’s Summer: Diversions, Excursions and Seasonal Celebrations Caroline Clemente 10 C J La Trobe’s Season in Van Diemen’s Land Marita Hargraves 16 La Trobe University - Occasional Address Dr Dianne Reilly 31 A Word from the President La Trobe’s management of the Port Welcome to the second edition of La Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate’. On a Trobeana for 2007. You will notice the personal note, my family and I are proud upgrading of the design and production and delighted to be associated with the of the journal, and we thank Minuteman sponsorship of this Fellowship. Press for assistance with this important aspect of our journal; we hope you enjoy the new format. We are pleased to be As you will see, the joint La Trobe publishing three excellent articles written Society/Royal Historical Society Annual by members of the Society, two of which A G L Shaw Lecture will be held later this are especially for this Journal. We are month, and we are pleased to welcome delighted to be the fi rst to publish the Dr Robert Kenny who will speak on groundbreaking research by Marita the subject of ‘The Moravian Charles Hargraves whose article Joseph La Trobe’ on Tuesday 26 June, ‘C J La Trobe’s Season in Van Diemen’s at the Royal Historical Society. Other Land’ investigates La Trobe’s time as events are in preparation, including the acting Lieutenant-Governor in Tasmania Annual General Meeting to be held in from late 1846 to early 1847. Lawyer September and our Christmas Cocktails and academic, John Waugh’s article, which will this year be held at the ‘A Monstrous Anomaly: La Trobe and Australian Club with member Michael the Legislature’ examines La Trobe’s Bond as our host. infl uence on the fi rst Victorian Legislative Council. By popular demand, we are Our Treasurer, John Drury, makes also publishing the talk given at last the point in his article that we should year’s Christmas Cocktails by Caroline encourage our friends and associates Clemente, on ‘La Trobe’s Summer: to become members of this Society, Diversions, Excursions and Seasonal and I wholeheartedly support this Celebrations’. Finally, our Secretary, Dr initiative. I, too, encourage you to think Dianne Reilly, in her capacity as La Trobe of businesses and individuals who may Librarian at the State Library of Victoria, wish to sponsor events or even provide was recently honoured to address an annual amount for future Fellowships. a graduation ceremony at La Trobe There is a great deal of work to be done, University, and that address, which and I believe the members of our Society provides a context for La Trobe’s work will embrace all opportunities to promote to the university audience, is reprinted in the work of the Society which in turn full in this edition. educates Victorians to the signifi cance of the work carried out by La Trobe Since our last edition, the work of the during his time in Victoria. La Trobe Society has continued apace. A number of events planned for 2007 With all best wishes aim at increasing the La Trobe Society’s Rodney Davidson profi le for its signifi cant work in the community. First and foremost is the awarding of the inaugural La Trobe Society Fellowship. We are delighted by the choice of the State Library’s independent judging JOURNAL panel of Dr Frances Thiele. She will OF THE investigate ‘Edward Stone Parker and C J LA TROBE the Aboriginal People of the Mt Macedon 4 SOCIETY District: a case study of Superintendent and additional access to the collections. Inaugural La Trobe Selection of the successful applicant was made by the recommendation of the Society Fellowship Writers and Readers Committee to the Award Library Board of Victoria. Frances is not new to the State Library, 2007 – 2008 having worked there as Field Historian some years ago. Her project will focus on La Trobe’s administration and his dealings with the Indigenous population. In 1837 Lord Glenelg, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, established the Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate and appointed George Augustus Robinson as Chief Protector. Later the same year he nominated four Assistant Protectors to work directly with Aboriginal people in large regional districts. One of these men was Edward Stone Parker, a Methodist preacher given responsibility for Aboriginal people in the Mount Macedon (or Loddon) District northwest of Melbourne. Only a few months later in 1838, the British Government decided that Charles Joseph La Trobe was the right man to take up the post of Superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales. One of La Trobe’s important duties was to oversee Dr. Frances Thiele the Protectorate System created by a liberal-minded Government, reviewing It is with great pleasure that we the effect of colonisation on Aboriginal announce the winner of the inaugural people throughout the world. This La Trobe Society Fellowship. It is study will use Parker’s Mount Macedon Dr Frances Thiele whose project is Protectorate district as a case study to ‘Edward Stone Parker and the Aboriginal examine how La Trobe managed the People of the Mt. Macedon District, competing interests of the British and a case study of Superintendent La Colonial Governments and the needs Trobe’s management of the Port Phillip of the Protectors who witnessed the Aboriginal Protectorate.’ disastrous effects of colonisation on Aboriginal people but held diverse views The La Trobe Society Fellowship, on day-to-day race relations. inaugurated this year, is for a period of six months with a stipend of $25,000. An Honorary Research Associate in Funding for the Fellowship is provided the School of Historical and European by the La Trobe Society, through the Studies at La Trobe University, Frances generosity of the Rodney Davidson has delivered numerous papers at Family. It is awarded for historical history conferences and has published research in the period of La Trobe’s widely. Among her many talents, she tenure as Superintendent of the Port is an accomplished harpist whose next Phillip District and later as Lieutenant public performance will be in Lucia di Governor of the Colony of Victoria Lammermoor with the MelbourneMelbourne City JOURNAL (1839 – 1854). Like the State Library’s Opera Orchestra. OF THE Creative Fellowships, the recipient has C J LA TROBE the use of a study at the State Library SOCIETY 5 A Word from the La Trobe’s 206th Treasurer Birthday Celebration The inaugural La Trobe Society 20 March 2007 Fellowship, sponsored with the generosity of the Rodney Davidson Over 40 members and friends attended the Family, has been awarded to Dr Frances informal twilight picnic at La Trobe Cottage on Thiele. The title of her project is 20 March to celebrate the birthday of the fi rst ‘Edward Stone Parker and the Aboriginal Lieutenant-Governor. This was an opportunity to visit the tiny residence and to imagine what it must People of the Mt. Macedon District, have been like in those pioneering days to live on a case study of Superintendent La the outskirts of an embryonic city. Trobe’s management of the Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate’. Guest speaker was Martin Purslow, the newly appointed Chief Executive Offi cer, of the National In our last La Trobeana issue, I requested Trust of Australia (Victoria). Mr Purslow was members to put forward names of recently the conservation manager for the National any industry or company that they Trust and has brought a wealth of knowledge and consider could be approached for future experience to the CEO’s position. He is a former sponsorship of a La Trobe Society chief executive of the Paxton Trust in Scotland, annual Fellowship. Please keep this in a position which included the management of mind to ensure future success of this invaluable collections from the National Galleries worthwhile project. of Scotland. Mr Purslow has also acted as CEO of the Bexley Heritage Trust, an independent charitable fund, where he directed the restoration The Society received a request from the and opening by the Queen of Danson House, Geelong Branch of the National Trust of described by English Heritage as ‘the most Australia (Victoria) to assist in restoration signifi cant building at risk in London’. He has also of the grave of Charlotte Pellet in the been active in heritage tourism development in the Inverleigh Cemetery. Charlotte Pellet UK, and Chairman for the Association of Scottish was the housekeeper for many years Visitor Attractions and was elected a Fellow of the at Jolimont, having come from the Royal Society of Arts in 2005 in recognition of his Montmollion family home in Neuchâtel work in the UK for heritage and the arts.
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