R. Travers Herford was a British Unitarian minister and scholar of rabbinical literature.

He was the grandson of John Gooch Robberds and brother of Professor C. H. Herford

C. H. Herford

Charles Harold Herford was an English literary scholar and critic. He is remembered principally for his biography and edition of the works of Ben Jonson in 11 volumes. This major scholarly project was published from 1925 onwards by Oxford University Press, and completed with Percy and Evelyn Simpson...

, of Manchester University. Herford was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and Manchester New College, London (B.A. 1880). Then as a Hibbert Scholar, he studied at the University of Leiden. Manchester. From 1914 to 1925 he was librarian of Dr. Williams's Library, Grafton Street, London.

He was noted as one of the first Christian scholars of the Pharisees

Pharisees

The Pharisees were at various times a political party, a social movement, and a school of thought among Jews during the Second Temple period beginning under the Hasmonean dynasty in the wake of...

to take a neutral view between Talmud and New Testament.

Works

• Christianity in Talmud and Midrash, 1903
• What the World Owes to the Pharisees, The Menorah Journal, 1919