farther, when a message from the Princess Charlotte of Wale, through her music-master, expressing gratification with the work, and a wish for its continuance, determined him to persevere. The two next volumes proceeded under her patronage, and in the preface to the fourth he makes a feeling allusion to her loss. The whole six volumes cover a space of twenty years, embracing examples, more or less extended, from the works of upwards of fifty composers. It forms a treasury of the richest music, and is peculiarly adapted to meet a want often experienced — how to fill up the hours of social recreation.
The son (from whom I quote) was Canon La Trobe (see chapter xxiii.). lie edited his father’s “Letters to my Children.” He published a didactic volume of essays on the “Music of the Church” in 1831, with this dedication:—
To my Father this Volume is dedicated,
in gratitude for the care with which
he elicited and directed heavenward
the musical taste of his children;
and in adoration of that Blessed Lord
who has enabled him from earliest youth, even to hoar hairs,
to devote the musical talent wherewith he has been endowed,
exclusively to advance the Divine Glory
in the active promotion of the music of the Church.
[The old minister was born at Fulneck in 1758, and died at Fairfield on 6th May 1836, in his seventy-ninth year.]
Another son was (I think) Charles Joseph Latrobe, author of travels. I cannot think that he was American, for the motto of his books on the new world was —
Caelum non animam mutant qui trans mare currunt.
His works were (1) “The Alpenstock; or, Sketches of Swiss Scenery and Manners, 1825-6,” Lond., 1829. (2) “The Pedestrian — a Summer’s Ramble in the Tyrol and some of the adjacent Provinces, 1830,” Lond., 1832. (3) “The Rambler in North America, 1832-3,” “dedicated to Washington Irving, Esq.,” 2 vols., Lond., 1835. (4) “The Rambler in Mexico, 1834,” London., 1836.
| John Henry Boneval de La Trobe, refugee in Holland and England. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| James La Trobe, of Dublin | = | Miss Thornton. | |||||||||||||||||||
| [Rev.] Benjamin La Trobe, Mission Secretary of the Moravian Church, born in Dublin 1728, died in London 1786. |
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Anna Margaret, daughter of Colonel John Henry Antes. |
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| [Rev.] Christian Ignatius La Trobe, born 1758, died 1836, Mission Secretary of the Moravian Church, Author of “Voyage to S. Africa,” “Voyage of Brethren to Ungava Bay,” Editor of “Letters on Nicobar Islands,” Translator of “Loskiel’s History of the Missions among the Indians of N. American.” Most eminent for sacred musical compositions and harmonies. |
Benjamin-Henry, architect and civil-engineer, settled in America, died 1822. He left two sons — |
John Frederic, M.D., of Jena, physician at Dorpat in Livonia; emiment as a composer of sacred music; died 1846. |
Mary Agnes, wife of John Bateman, Esq. (See chap, xx.) | ||||||||||||||||||
| [Among other public works executed by Mr. B.-H La Trobe were the Philadelphia Waterworks and the Bank of the United States in that city, the Cathedral of Baltimore, the American President’s House, and the Capitol at Washington.] | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Rev. Peter La Trobe, Mission Secretary in London, born 15th February 1795, died at Berthelsdorf, when on a visit, 24th September 1864, and was buried at Herrnhut. |
Charlotte. | Agnes. | John. [Rev. John Antes La Trobe, Canon of Carlisle.] (See chap, xxiii.) |
Joseph, [Query, Charles Joseph.] |
Frederic. | ||||||||||||||||
Bosanquet. — The Bosanquet family (see chapter xx.) have cultivated literature with no inconsiderable success. The British Museum Library Catalogue contains a long list of their publications. The Bosanquets of Rock, in Northumberland, are represented in three generations. Colonel Charles Bosanquet published a “Letter on West India Property” (1807), “Thoughts on Commerce and our Colonial Trade” (1808), and “Observations as to Bullion” (2nd edit., 1801). His eldest son and successor, Rev. Robert William Bosanquet, published “Objections to Dr. Pusey’s Sermon on the Holy Eucharist” (1843), reprinted at Edinburgh (1844), and “The Sacrament of Baptism” (1850). A younger son, Rev. George Henry Bosanquet,
