S. Smith Travers
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| Born | 1826 | ||||||
| Died | 1888 | ||||||
| Residence | Swithin's Lane, EC | ||||||
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Samuel Smith Travers was the son and one of fifteen children of John and Maria Lindsay Travers. Several of his siblings migrated to Australia including his brother Roderick Travers. They were partners in the rural sheep properties Gordon Downs, Peak Downs near Rockhampton, Queensland.
The Hobart Real Tennis Club
The court in Hobart was built in 1875 by Samuel Smith Travers, who, having played in London, was a devotee of the game. Travers bought premises where he could not only live but have a court in his backyard. He found an old brewery in Davey Street and built a house on the property next door. This house subsequently became the Hobart Trades Hall and is now incorporated in the Commonwealth Law Courts. He modified the brewery and created the Tennis Court we see today. The Club's social rooms, it is understood, originally formed the hay loft above, the stable and the tack room, all belonging to the house.
The Will of S.S. Travers: His personal effects amounted to £4.500. The Will was proved by Archibald Lindsay Travers, medical student, of 18 Nevern Road, Earls Court, the son and one of the Executors.
Name: Samuel Smith TRAVERS Sex: M Birth: 26 MAR 1826 in London, Middlesex, England Death: 8 MAR 1888 in Clarence, Tasmania Burial: 9 MAR 1888 Cornelian Bay Cemetery, Hobart
Publications
External Publications
A treatise on tennis / by S. Smith Travers
Travers, S. Smith
Shakespeare's sonnets : to whom were they addressed? / [S. Smith Travers]
Travers, S. Smith [ Book : 1881 ]
Sheep-breeding
Travers, S Smith
On the sugar duties, a paper
Samuel Smith Travers
1865
A collection of pedigrees of the family of Travers, abstracts of documents ...
By Samuel Smith Travers
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Tasmania Archives. LETTERBOOK OF SAMUEL SMITH TRAVERS RELATING TO HIS RURAL BUSINESS AFFAIRS IN QUEENSLAND. Start Date: 22 Nov 1866 End Date: 03 May 1868
