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. | |