Walter Travers
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Walter Travers (1548?[1] – 1635) was an English Puritan theologian. He was at one time chaplain to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, and tutor to his son Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury.
He is remembered mostly as an opponent of the teaching of Richard Hooker. He was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he was admitted to Christ's College before migrating to Trinity,[2] and then travelled to Geneva to visit Theodore Beza. He was ordained by Thomas Cartwright in Antwerp. He was a lecturer at the Temple Church in London in 1581, until he was forbidden to preach by Archbishop Whitgift in March 1586. [3]
He was Provost of Trinity College, Dublin from 1594 to 1598.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Ford, Alan, "Travers, Walter", on the website of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription or UK public library membership required), http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/27673
- ^ Venn, J.; Venn, J. A., eds (1922–1958). "Travers, Walter". Alumni Cantabrigienses (10 vols) (online ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ S. J. Knox (1962), Walter Travers: Paragon of Elizabethan Puritanism
- ^ Walter Travers. Trinity College Website, Retrieved on 16 September 2009
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