George Travis (1741-1797)
Educated at Manchester grammar school and St John's College, Cambridge, he was archdeacon
of Chester (1786); when he attacked Edward Gibbon in the Gentleman's
Magazine his faulty scholarship was exposed by Richard Porson.
Educated at Manchester grammar school and St John's College, Cambridge, he was archdeacon
of Chester (1786); when he attacked Edward Gibbon in the Gentleman's
Magazine his faulty scholarship was exposed by Richard Porson.