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'''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.<ref>Robert Boyle Travers in 1864 UK and Ireland, Medical Registers, 1859-1943.</ref> 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.<ref>Maude Louisa Scott-Elliot in Census of England and Wales, 1911.</ref> After her mother died, Maude's father married Anna (née Shand) on July 13, 1864 at Saint Marylebone, Westminster, England.<ref>Robert Boyle Travers in Ireland, Select Marriages, 1619-1898.</ref><ref>Robert Boyle Travers in London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938.</ref><ref>Joscelyn Godwin, ''Atlantis and the Cycles of Time'' (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2011), 69-70.</ref><ref>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 [https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G006152.pdf Seekingmyroots.com].</ref>

== Theosophical Society involvement ==
Maude became a member of the [[London Lodge]] of the Theosophical Society.<ref>Theosophical Society General Membership Register, 1875-1942 at [http://tsmembers.org/ http://tsmembers.org/]. See book2, entry 19085 (website file: 2A/77). No date is given in the register.</ref> 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.<ref>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.</ref><ref>Keith S. M. Scott, ''Scott 1118-n, Harden, Balweary, etc.'' (Privately published, 1923), 213. Available online at [https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G006152.pdf Seekingmyroots.com].</ref>

Known under the pseudonym of "Mary". She became a close friend of [[Alfred Percy Sinnett|A. P. Sinnett]], who was convinced that she was in contact with the [[Masters of Wisdom]]. 

In 1909, following [[Charles Webster Leadbeater|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 [[London Lodge #Eleusinian Society|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.<ref>Alfred Percy Sinnett, ''Autobiography of Alfred Percy Sinnett'' (London: Theosophical History Center, 1986), 48-49.</ref>

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[[Category:Nationality Irish|Travers, Mary]]
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[[Category:People|Travers, Mary]]