Robert Travers Herford[1] (1860–1950) 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, of Manchester University.[2] 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.[3] From 1914 to 1925 he was librarian of Dr Williams's Library, Grafton Street, London.[4]
In 1886 Herford's first effort in Talmudics appeared in an article on "The Jerusalem Talmud" contributed to The Christian Reformer.[5]
He was noted as one of the first Christian scholars of the Pharisees to take a neutral view between Talmud and New Testament.[6]
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