Walter Travers (1548? – 1635) was an English

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theologian. He was at one time chaplain to

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, and tutor to his son Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury. 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 travelled to

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to visit

Theodore Beza Theodore Beza ( la, Theodorus Beza; french: Théodore de Bèze or ''de Besze''; June 24, 1519 – October 13, 1605) was a French Calvinist Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar who played an important role in the Protestant Reformation ...

. 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

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. He was a lecturer at the

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in London 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

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