Maude Travers
Maude Louise Boyle-Travers (1859 - August 4, 1929) was a psychic and member of the London Lodge of the Theosophical Society.
Early life
Maude was the daughter of an Irish physician, Robert Boyle Travers of Farsid, County Cork, who was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England and a Licensed Apothecary in Dublin.[1] He was married first to Mary Anne (née Daly) on October 28, 1852 in Cloyne, Cork, Ireland. Maude was born in 1859 in Aghada County, Ireland.[2] After her mother died, Maude's father married Anna (née Shand) on July 13, 1864 at Saint Marylebone, Westminster, England.[3][4][5][6]
Theosophical Society involvement
Maude became a member of the London Lodge of the Theosophical Society.[7] On October 11, 1893, she married 44-year old William Scott-Elliot, a member of the same lodge, and two years later, on October 9, 1895, they had a son, Walter Travers Scott-Elliot.[8][9]
Known under the pseudonym of "Mary". She became a close friend of A. P. Sinnett, who was convinced that she was in contact with the Masters of Wisdom.
In 1909, following C. W. Leadbeater rejoining the Theosophical Society (Adyar) upon invitation by Annie Besant, "Mary" instigated the London Lodge members to unanimously withdraw from the Theosophical Society, subsequently forming the short-lived Eleusinian Society. In 1911 Mr. Sinnett felt he should not stay away for the Theosophical Movement he helped to form in the Western world. He discussed the matter with Annie Besant during her visit to London and in the Spring of that year the lodge became again part of the TS, changing its name back to London Lodge. Mr. Sinnett was restored to his original office of vice-President. "Mary" resigned from the Theosophical Society.[10]
Notes
- ↑ Robert Boyle Travers in 1864 UK and Ireland, Medical Registers, 1859-1943.
- ↑ Maude Louisa Scott-Elliot in Census of England and Wales, 1911.
- ↑ Robert Boyle Travers in Ireland, Select Marriages, 1619-1898.
- ↑ Robert Boyle Travers in London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938.
- ↑ Joscelyn Godwin, Atlantis and the Cycles of Time (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2011), 69-70.
- ↑ Keith S. M. Scott, Scott 1118-1923, Being a Collection of "Scott" pedigrees containing all known male descendants from Buccleuch, Sinton, Harden, Balweary, etc. (Privately published, 1923), 213. Available online at Seekingmyroots.com.
- ↑ Theosophical Society General Membership Register, 1875-1942 at http://tsmembers.org/. See book2, entry 19085 (website file: 2A/77). No date is given in the register.
- ↑ Daniel Caldwell and Michelle B. Graye, "Mari Unveiled," The1923, Being a Collection of "Scott" pedigrees containing all known male descendants from Buccleuch, Sintoosophical History 1:8 (October, 1986), 206.
- ↑ Keith S. M. Scott, Scott 1118-n, Harden, Balweary, etc. (Privately published, 1923), 213. Available online at Seekingmyroots.com.
- ↑ Alfred Percy Sinnett, Autobiography of Alfred Percy Sinnett (London: Theosophical History Center, 1986), 48-49.