Benjamin Travers

Benjamin Travers, FRS (3 April 1783 – 6 March 1858) was a British surgeon, known for his expertise in the physiology and morbidity of the eye.

[2] After Cheshunt Grammar School, he was educated privately before joining his father's counting house in 1799.

In 1810 he was appointed Surgeon to the London Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye, and afterwards to the Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital, where he collaborated with William Lawrence.

He also obtained the lucrative post of Surgeon to the East India Company's warehouses and brigade.

He died at his house in Green Street, Grosvenor Square, on 6 March 1858, and was buried at Hendon, Middlesex.