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
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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.
REFERENCES TO George Travis: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XXVIII. 1800-1807 Found 1: ¶ 25