Wilfrid Irwin Travers was born at 2 Phillimore Gardens, Kensington [now London], Middlesex, England on 25 April 1883. After studying at the Architectural Schools in London in 1901-02, he was articled to Aston Webb (1849-1930) from 1902-05 and remained with him as his assistant for a further year. He qualified as an architect in 1906 and subsequently practised as an architect in London. He was at one time in partnership with Geoffrey Spurrell Mileham (1884-1960) as Travers & Mileham. From 1920 to 1922 Travers was Architect and Deputy Director City of Birmingham Housing and Estates Department after which he returned to London.
Travers was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1906 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1917. He was the author of Architectural Education (1908 and Modern Railway Working (1909), a monograph on reinforced concrete.
His address was given as 2 Phillimore Gardens, Kensington, London in 1906; 4, The Broadway, Hammersmith, London 1914; 36, Furnlval Street, Holborn, London in 1926; 8 and 9 Great James Street, London in 1939. He died in Earl's Court, London on 13 October 1954
Houses at Northwood, Middlesex; Wimbledon, Surrey; (1912) Swanage, Dorset; Hertford. Hertfordshire; (1922-23) Highgate, Middlesex; Bognor, Sussex; (1924) Wellington, Surrey; private scheme of 25 houses and shops and flats, West Norwood; private scheme of 180 houses (1925) and a large number in 1920 under the Birmingham Housing Scheme
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001 [Date of birth incorrectly given as 1873]