Walter Travers (9 March 1548 - 1 February 1635) was an English

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theologian who served as the 2nd

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from 1594 to 1598. He was also at one time chaplain to

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, and tutor to his son

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, who both served

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during her reign. He is remembered mostly as an opponent of the teaching of

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. He was educated at the

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, where he was admitted to Christ's College before migrating to

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, and then traveled to

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to visit

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. He was ordained by Thomas Cartwright in

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, where in the late 1570s his work was favoured by the encouragement of Sir Francis Walsingham and

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. He was a lecturer at the

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in 1581, until he was forbidden to preach by Archbishop Whitgift in March 1586. He was Provost of

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from 1594 to 1598.Walter Travers
''Trinity College Website'', Retrieved on 16 September 2009

References

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