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Henry Travers (naturalist)

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Name
  
Henry Travers

Died
  
1928

Henry Hammersley Travers (1844 – 16 February 1928) was a New Zealand naturalist, professional collector and taxidermist. He was the son of the politician William Travers.

Born in Hythe, Kent, England, in 1844, and baptised at Cheriton, Kent, on 13 October of that year, Travers was the son of William Thomas Locke Travers and Jane Travers (née Oldham). The family emigrated to New Zealand by the ship Kelso in 1849. Travers was educated at Nelson College from 1856 to 1860.

Specimens collected by Travers are in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Travers died in Wellington on 16 February 1928.

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Henry Travers (naturalist) Wikipedia