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George Travis
(1741-1797)

NAME AUTHORITIES:
LOC:    Travis, George, 1741-1797
DNB:    Travis, George (bap. 1741, d. 1797), Church of England clergyman
LBT ID: GeTravi1797    VIAF ID: 79253003    LOC ID: nr93040119
B/BAP:   1741-12-13
DIED:   1797-02-24
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
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.
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