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Charles La Trobe
Charles La Trobe was an English administrator who became superintendent of the Port Phillip District in 1839 and the first lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Victoria when it separated from New South Wales in 1851. Weeks later the gold rush began, and his government struggled to cope with the huge influx of miners. He left the colony in 1854.
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