Benjamin Travers

(1783-1858)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Travers, Benjamin, 1783-1858 NRA: Travers Benjamin (1783-1858) Surgeon DNB: Travers, Benjamin (1783-1858), surgeon LBT ID: BeTrave1858 VIAF ID: 74635248 LOC ID: n85829048	B/BAP: 1783-04 DIED: 1858-03-06
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Surgeon at Guy's Hospital and London Eye Infirmary; he was FRS (1813) and surgeon to Queen Victoria. His first wife was Sarah Morgan, daughter of the actuary (and friend of Samuel Rogers) William Morgan.
REFERENCES TO Benjamin Travers: Sydney Smith to Humphrey Francis St. John Mildmay, 30 April 1837 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 10 October 1841 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 23 October 1845 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 2 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1837 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter III. 1834-1837. Found 1: ¶ 40 Chapter IV. 1838-41. Found 1: ¶ 56 Chapter VI. 1845-46.