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Dictionary of National Biography, /Latrobe, Charles Joseph
&#;LATROBE, CHARLES JOSEPH (–), Australian governor and traveller, born in London on 20 March , was son of Christian Ignatius Latrobe [q.
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v.]. He received the usual Moravian education, with a view to entering the Moravian ministry, to which his father belonged, but abandoned this design in order to travel. He began by wandering in Switzerland, –6, where he proved himself a worthy pioneer of the Alpine Club, and, unaccompanied by guide or porters, ascended mountains and passes hitherto unexplored by Englishmen.
In he made a long walking tour in the Tyrol, and in went to America with his friend Count Albert Pourtales, and, after visiting the chief cities in the States, sailed down the Mississippi to New Orleans, whence in he struck across the prairies, in company with &#;Washington Irving, into Mexico.
In he was commissioned by government to report on the working of the funds voted for the education of the West India