William Thomas Locke Travers (1819 - 1903) was a New Zealand lawyer, politician, explorer, and naturalist. Travers was born in County Limerick, Ireland, either on 9 January or 19 January (accounts vary) 1819. His father chose to retire to France, and Travers was consequently brought up there. He was educated in Saint-Malo, a town in Brittany. In 1835, he joined the British military, and was part of the British Auxiliary Legion that fought in Spain's Carlist Wars. Wikipedia
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