William Thomas Locke Travers
1819–1903
Irish-born lawyer, politician, and naturalist. Emigrated to New Zealand in 1849. Established a legal practice in Nelson in 1849, and later in Christchurch in 1860. Founding member, New Zealand Institute. Collected plants for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1860–80, and wrote papers on agriculture, botany, geology, and anthropology.
Sources
R. Desmond 1994, DNZB
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 35 (1902): xviii–xix.
Bibliography
Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor & Francis.
DNZB: A dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by G. H. Scholefield. 2 vols. Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs. 1940. The dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by W. H. Oliver et al. 5 vols. Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs [and others]. 1990–2000.
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