Roderick Travers

Roderick Travers (9 May 1831 – 19 July 1894) was a sheep farmer and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Early days Travers was born in Islington, London, and sailed on the Blackwall from Portsmouth to Australia in 1850. He returned to London in 1852 and did not return to Australia until 1862. He acquired and ran several different stations in New South Wales and Queensland until his return to London around 1889. He helped found the Central Queensland Meat Export Co. Ltd in Rockhampton in 1880.

He married again on the 17 August 1872 in Caulfield, Victoria to Amy Stephen and together had three sons and two daughters.

Travers died in Kensington, London, on the 19 July 1894.