Travers
Encyclopedia
Surname
- Allan TraversAllan TraversAloysius Joseph "Allan" Travers, aka Rev. Aloysius Stanislaus Travers was a Major League Baseball pitcher who made a one-game appearance during the 1912 strike of the Detroit Tigers....
- Angela Travers, fictional character
- Ben TraversBen TraversBen Travers AFC CBE in London) was a British playwright best remembered for his farces.Born in the London borough of Hendon, Travers was educated at Charterhouse, where today there is a theatre named for him...
- Bill TraversBill TraversWilliam Lindon-Travers was an English actor, screenwriter, director and an animal rights activist, known professionally as Bill Travers.-Life and career:...
(1922–1994), English actor, screenwriter, director and animal rights activist - Bill Travers (baseball) (born 1952), former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Boyd Travers, fictional war hero in the computer game Medal of Honor: Airborne
- Cody Travers
- Dahlia Travers, fictional character in P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories
- Dow TraversDow TraversDow Travers is a Caymanian alpine skier and rugby union player who competes in giant slalom and Rugby XVs and 7s. He represented the Cayman Islands in alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics, becoming the Cayman Islands' first Winter Olympian. Travers, who is the son of Anthony Travers, was born...
- Fritz Travers, mayor of WiesbadenWiesbadenWiesbaden is a city in southwest Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. It has about 275,400 inhabitants, plus approximately 10,000 United States citizens...
from 1919 to 1929 - George TraversGeorge TraversJames Edward Travers , known as George Travers, was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward or centre forward...
, English footballer and FA Cup winner with Barnsley F.C. - George Travers (rugby player)George Travers (rugby player)George "Twyber" Travers was a Welsh international hooker who played club rugby for Pill Harriers and Newport Rugby Football Club. He won 25 caps for Wales between 1903 and 1911....
, Welsh international rugby union player - Henry TraversHenry TraversHenry Travers was an English actor. His most memorable role was that of the angel, Clarence, in the 1946 motion picture It's A Wonderful Life.-Early life:...
- James TraversJames TraversGeneral James Travers VC CB was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
- Jerome TraversJerome TraversJerome Dunstan "Jerry" Travers was one of the leading amateur golfers of the early 20th century. He won the U.S. Amateur in 1907, 1908, 1912 and 1913, the New Jersey Amateur three times, and the Metropolitan Amateur five times. He was regarded as one of the finest match play golfers of his time...
- Joe TraversJoe TraversJoseph Patrick Francis Travers was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1902. He played Australian rules football for Norwood in the South Australian Football Association during the 1890s.-References:...
- John Travers (actor)John Travers (actor)John Travers is an actor from Belfast, Northern Ireland.He was best known from his role in the Song for a Raggy Boy and 48 Angels. His role as Liam Mercier in Song for a Raggy Boy is probably the most notable achievement so far...
- John Travers (composer)John Travers (Composer)John Travers was an English composer who held the office of Organist to the Chapel Royal from 1737 to 1758. Before filling several parochial posts in London he had been a choir boy at St. George's Chapel, Windsor and a pupil of Johann Christoph Pepusch...
- John Travers (murderer)
- Kyle Travers
- Linden TraversLinden Travers-Life and career:Travers was born Florence Lindon-Travers in Houghton-le-Spring, near Sunderland, the daughter of Florence and William Halton Lindon-Travers. She was the elder sister of Bill Travers, and attended La Sagesse. She made her first stage appearance at the Newcastle Playhouse in 1933...
- Mary Travers (journalist)Mary Travers (journalist)Mary Travers Murphy is the Executive Director of the Family Justice Center of Erie County. She was formerly a consumer affairs journalist and was part of the Action 7 news team on ABC affiliate, WKBW-TV, based in Buffalo, New York...
- Mary Travers (singer)Mary Travers (singer)Mary Allin Travers was an American singer-songwriter and member of the folk music group Peter, Paul and Mary, along with Peter Yarrow and Noel Stookey...
(born 1936), American singer; member of the folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary - Mary Rose-Anna TraversLa BolducMary Rose-Anna Travers, was a French Canadian singer and musician. She was known as Madame Bolduc or La Bolduc. During the peak of her popularity in the 1930s, she was known as the Queen of Canadian Folksingers. Bolduc is often considered to be Quebec's first singer/songwriter...
(1894–1941), Canadian Québécois singer known as "La Bolduc" - Mary Travers (journalist)Mary Travers (journalist)Mary Travers Murphy is the Executive Director of the Family Justice Center of Erie County. She was formerly a consumer affairs journalist and was part of the Action 7 news team on ABC affiliate, WKBW-TV, based in Buffalo, New York...
, television journalist; a.k.a. Mary Travers-Murphy - Morris TraversMorris TraversMorris William Travers , the founding director of the Indian Institute of Science, was an English chemist who worked along with Sir William Ramsay in the discovery of xenon, neon and krypton...
- P. L. TraversP. L. TraversPamela Lyndon Travers OBE was an Australian novelist, actress and journalist, popularly remembered for her series of children's novels about the mystical and magical nanny Mary Poppins...
, Australian author best known for Mary Poppins - Paddy TraversPaddy TraversPatrick "Paddy" Travers was a football player and manager in the first half of the 20th century. He played for many clubs in his native Scotland and for Barnsley in England, before becoming involved in coaching, and later, managing....
- Pat TraversPat TraversPatrick Henry "Pat" Travers is a Canadian rock guitarist, keyboardist and singer who began his recording career with Polydor Records in the mid-1970s...
- Peter TraversPeter TraversPeter Travers is an American film critic, who has written for, in turn, People and Rolling Stone. Travers also hosts a celebrity interview show called Popcorn on ABC News Now and ABCNews.com.-Career:...
, American film critic - Quentin Travers
- Robert A. Travers, Ichthyologist
- Sarah TraversSarah TraversSarah Travers is a Northern Irish journalist. She currently works as a reporter and presenter on BBC Newsline.-Broadcasting career:...
- Sean Travers (1984-) Maryland,USA Doctor of Medicinal Chemistry
- Susan TraversSusan TraversSusan Travers was an Englishwoman who was the only woman to serve officially with the French Foreign Legion.-Early life:...
, an English soldier and adventurer who served with the French Foreign Legion during the Second World War - Thomas Otho TraversThomas Otho TraversThomas Otho Travers was a soldier and a friend of Stamford Raffles.He was born in Patrick Street, Cork, Ireland to Robert Travers a banker and Commissioner of the Peace for County Cork...
, soldier, friend and aide-de-camp to Sir Stamford Rafffles - Walter TraversWalter TraversWalter Travers 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...
- William Travers (politician) (1819–1903), New Zealand lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist
- William R. TraversWilliam R. TraversWilliam Riggin Travers was an American lawyer who made a fortune on Wall Street. A well-known cosmopolite and high liver, Travers was a member of 27 private clubs, according to Cleveland Amory in his book Who Killed Society?-Biography:He was born in 1819.Along with John Hunter, in 1863 he founded...
(1819–1887) , American lawyer and investor
Geography
- Travers RiverTravers RiverThe Travers River is in the South Island of New Zealand.It lies within the borders of the Nelson Lakes National Park. The valley through which the river flows is popular with trampers and is part of the Travers-Sabine tramping circuit, which follows a major portion of the river, starting from Kerr...
in New Zealand - Travers, SwitzerlandTravers, SwitzerlandTravers was a municipality in the district of Val-de-Travers in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Boveresse, Buttes, Couvet, Fleurier, Les Bayards, Môtiers, Noiraigue, Saint-Sulpice and Travers merged to form Val-de-Travers....
, a village in the canton of Neuchâtel, in the Val-de-TraversVal-de-TraversVal-de-Travers is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Travers in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It was created on 1 January 2009, when the former municipalities of Boveresse, Buttes, Couvet, Fleurier, Les Bayards, Môtiers, Noiraigue, Saint-Sulpice and Travers merged to form...
district
Other uses
- Travers, another name for the movement Haunches-inHaunches-inHaunches-in is a lateral movement used in the dressage discipline of horse training. It has a close cousin, haunches-out , that is slightly more difficult...
- Travers SAR antenna, part of the PrirodaPrirodaThe Priroda module was the seventh and final module of the Mir Space Station. Its primary purpose was to conduct Earth resource experiments through remote sensing and to develop and verify remote sensing methods...
module of the Russian space station MirMirMir was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, at first by the Soviet Union and then by Russia. Assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996, Mir was the first modular space station and had a greater mass than that of any previous spacecraft, holding the record for the...
. - The Travers StakesTravers StakesThe Travers Stakes is an American Grade I Thoroughbred horse race held at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.First held in 1864, it was named for William R. Travers, the president of the old Saratoga Racing Association. His horse, Kentucky, won the first running of the Travers...
, horse race held in Saratoga Springs, New York