Past Events
August 2018
La Trobe and his Horses: Testing Times
Mueller Hall, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens,
Birdwood Avenue
Melbourne
3004
Australia
+ Google Map La Trobe and his Horses: Testing Times – a talk with the C J La Trobe Society Speaker: Peter Hiscock AM, former director the Sovereign Hill outdoor museum at Ballarat, and life-long horseman. Peter will focus on the horsemanship of Charles Joseph La Trobe and the horse as a major player in the settlement of the Port Phillip District / Colony of Victoria – a fact so often neglected in the historical narrative. Includes a delicious afternoon tea. Bookings essential…
May 2019
Friends of La Trobe’s Cottage annual lecture
Mueller Hall, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens,
Birdwood Avenue
Melbourne
3004
Australia
+ Google Map LA TROBE'S GOLD AND SILVER TESTIMONIAL PIECES Speaker: Susan Priestley, Fellow RHSV La Trobe’s farewell tribute from the people of Victoria in 1853 included a superb gold cup made in Melbourne (whereabouts unknown since 1862) and a London-made spectacular silver and glass candelabrum centrepiece, now in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. Hear more about them and their place in history. Includes refreshments. All welcome.
June 2019
Sunday Talk with the La Trobe Society
Mueller Hall, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens,
Birdwood Avenue
Melbourne
3004
Australia
+ Google Map WILLIAM HENRY FOSTER: HIS FAMILY AND LIFE IN VICTORIA FROM THE GOLDRUSH YEARS Speaker: Tim Gatehouse, researcher into Victoria’s colonial era William Henry Foster was 20 years old when he arrived in Melbourne in 1852 with a colourful past. He went on to become Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Goldfields 1854 and Chinese Protector 1855-1861 when he stood up for the rights of Chinese people in Ballarat, for example, requesting a Chinese wing to be built at the hospital.…
July 2019
Sunday Talk with the La Trobe Society
Mueller Hall, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens,
Birdwood Avenue
Melbourne
3004
Australia
+ Google Map 'THE PARSON'S WIFE'': IN SEARCH OF HARRIET BEAN, DAUGHTER OF EMPIRE Speaker : Loreen Chambers, Vice-President of the C J La Trobe Society Harriet Battley was born to a military family in Jamaica which moved to the Cape Colony where she was orphaned at 6 years of age. She later shared the changing fortunes of her husband Willoughby Bean, first as a settler’s wife in New South Wales and then as a clergyman’s wife in Goldrush Victoria. Harriet did not…
September 2019
Sunday Talk with the La Trobe Society
Mueller Hall, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens,
Birdwood Avenue
Melbourne
3004
Australia
+ Google Map CHARLES HOTSON EBDEN : VICTORIA'S FIRST AUDITOR-GENERAL Speaker: Carolyn Brown, President Black Rock House Inc. Includes afternoon tea. All welcome. Bookings essentail
August 2022
Edna Walling – an unusual life
Mueller Hall, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens,
Birdwood Avenue
Melbourne
3004
Australia
+ Google Map Following the Australian Garden History Society's AGM, Sara Hardy will speak on 'Edna Walling'- an unusual life'. Sara Hardy is a playwright, biographer, novelist and former actor. Sara was inspired to write her first biography, The Unusual Life of Edna Walling, after portraying the famous Australian landscape designer in a theatre performance. Drinks and light refreshments will be available from 5:30 and the AGM begins at 6:00pm.
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