Death and Commemoration
Travers died in an accident at Hutt railway station on 27 April 1903. His descendants settled in Marlborough.
Mt Travers, the Travers Saddle, the Travers Valley, Upper Travers Hut and the Travers-Sabine Circuit in Nelson Lakes National Park are named after him, as is the Travers Room at the Rainbow Ski Area.
Read more about this topic: William Travers (politician)
Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)