Walter Travers | |
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| 2nd Provost of Trinity College Dublin | |
| In office 1 August 1594 – 30 July 1598 | |
| Preceded by | Adam Loftus |
| Succeeded by | Henry Alvey |
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| Born | (1548-03-09)9 March 1548 Crewe,Cheshire, England |
| Died | 2 January 1635(1635-01-02) (aged 86) London, England |
| Alma mater | Christ's College, Cambridge Trinity College, Cambridge |
Walter Travers (9 March 1548 - 1 February 1635[1]) was an EnglishPuritan theologian who served as the 2ndProvost of Trinity College Dublin from 1594 to 1598. He was also at one time chaplain toWilliam Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, and tutor to his sonRobert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, who both servedQueen Elizabeth I during her reign.
He is remembered mostly as an opponent of the teaching ofRichard Hooker. He was educated at theUniversity of Cambridge, where he was admitted toChrist's College before migrating toTrinity,[2] and then traveled toGeneva to visitTheodore Beza. He was ordained byThomas Cartwright inAntwerp, where in the late 1570s his work was favoured by the encouragement ofSir Francis Walsingham andHenry Killigrew (diplomat).[3] He was a lecturer at theTemple Church inLondon in 1581, until he was forbidden to preach byArchbishop Whitgift in March 1586.[4]
He wasProvost ofTrinity College Dublin from 1594 to 1598.[5]
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