The following details about La Trobe appears in a site in the library named after him on the street named after him in Melbourne, Victoria. Charles Joseph La Trobe was the first Superintendent of the Port Phillip District from 1839 to 1850 and first Lieutenant-Governor of the new colony of Victoria, Australia from 1851 to 1854. Washington Irving describes him as "a man of a thousand occupations; a botanist, a geologist, a hunter of beetles and butterflies, a musical amateur, a sketcher of no mean pretensions : in short a complete virtuoso." La Trobe was born on 20th March 1801 in London "of French Huguenot descent". His father, Christian Ignatius La Trobe, was a great friend of Haydn and the musicologist Dr. Burney, and was himself a composer of keyboard sonatas which he dedicated to Haydn. There is a biography of him with some family details about him on http://home.vicnet.net.au/~pioneers/pppg5ag.htm There are innumerable public buildings in Victoria named after him. Hope this is of some interest. Perhaps the La Trobe descendants already know it all. Bronwyn Stuckey, Australia