English Puritan theologian
Walter Travers (9 March 1548 - 1 February 1635[ 1] Puritan theologian who served as the 2nd Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1594 to 1598. He was also at one time chaplain to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley , and tutor to his son Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury , who both served Queen Elizabeth I during her reign.
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] Geneva to visit Theodore Beza . He was ordained by Thomas Cartwright in Antwerp , where in the late 1570s his work was favoured by the encouragement of Sir Francis Walsingham and Henry Killigrew (diplomat) .[ 3] Temple Church in London in 1581, until he was forbidden to preach by Archbishop Whitgift in March 1586.[ 4]
He was Provost of Trinity College Dublin from 1594 to 1598.[ 5]
References
^ Ford, Alan. "Travers, Walter". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/27673 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) ^ "Travers, Walter (TRVS560W)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.^ A.F. Pearson, Thomas Cartwright and Elizabethan Puritanism 1535-1603 (Cambridge University Press 1966), pp. 180-82; see also K. L. Sprunger, Dutch Puritanism: A History of English and Scottish Churches of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (E.J. Brill, Leiden 1982), p. 19, etc.
^ S. J. Knox, Walter Travers: Paragon of Elizabethan Puritanism (Methuen 1962).
^ Walter Travers . Trinity College Website , Retrieved on 16 September 2009
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