Maude Travers
Maude Louise Boyle-Travers (18?? - 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. He was married first to Mary Anne (née Daly) on October 28, 1852 in Cloyne, Cork, Ireland, and then to Anna (née Shand) on July 13, 1864 at Saint Marylebone, Westminster, England.[1][2][3][4]
Theosophical Society involvement
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. On October 11, 1893, she married 44-year old William Scott-Elliot, also a member of the London Lodge, and two years later, on October 9, 1895, they had a son, Walter Travers Scott-Elliot.[5][6]
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.
Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Daniel Caldwell and Michelle B. Graye, "Mari Unveiled," Theosophical History 1:8 (October, 1986), 206.
- ↑ 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.