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 |
Personal details | |
Born | Crewe,Cheshire,England | 9 March 1548
Died | 2 January 1635 86) London,England | (aged
Alma mater | Christ's College,Cambridge Trinity College,Cambridge |
Walter Travers (9 March 1548 - 1 February 1635 [1] ) was an English 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] and then traveled to 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] He was a lecturer at the 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]
William Cecil,1st Baron Burghley was an English statesman,the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign,twice Secretary of State and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. In his description in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,A.F. Pollard wrote,"From 1558 for forty years the biography of Cecil is almost indistinguishable from that of Elizabeth and from the history of England."
John Whitgift was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1583 to his death. Noted for his hospitality,he was somewhat ostentatious in his habits,sometimes visiting Canterbury and other towns attended by a retinue of 800 horses. Whitgift's theological views were often controversial.
Thomas Cartwright was an English Puritan preacher and theologian.
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The reign of Elizabeth I of England,from 1558 to 1603,saw the start of the Puritan movement in England,its clash with the authorities of the Church of England,and its temporarily effective suppression as a political movement in the 1590s by judicial means. This led to the further alienation of Anglicans and Puritans from one another in the 17th century during the reigns of King James and King Charles I,that eventually brought about the English Civil War,the brief rule of the Puritan Lord Protector of England Oliver Cromwell,the English Commonwealth,and as a result the political,religious,and civil liberty that is celebrated today in all English speaking countries.
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