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SIR TRAVERS, an English jurist; born in London, England, March 19, 1 1809; was educated at University College, Oxford. Successively fellow and tutor of his college, a public examand tutor of his college, a public exam- Economy at Oxford (1842-1847), and of International Law in King's College, London (1852-1855), he became in 1855 Professor of Civil Law at Oxford. In 1858 he became Chancellor of the Diocese of London, in 1862 advocate-general of the Admiralty, Queen's advocate-general in 1867, being knighted that same year.
He served also on various royal commissions. He resigned all his offices in 1872, but in 1884 drew up for the Belgian King Leopold II. a constitution for the Kongo Free State, and in 1885 acted as legal adviser to the West African Conference at Berlin. Among his most important writings are "View of the Progress of Political Economy Since the 16th portant writings are "View of the Prognational Law" (1856); "The Law of Nations" (1861); "Law of Nations in Times national Law" (1856) ; "The Law of Na- The Black Book of the Admiralty" (4 vols. 1871-1876), an edition for the Rolls series of the "England's Laws and Cus- The Black Book of the Admiralty" (4 1883), and "Belligerent Right on the High Seas" (1884). He died in London, Jan. 15, 1897.