Editing Anne Travers

{{Update|Needs more detailed information from ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'' and ''[[Birds of Passage (novel)|Birds of Passage]]''.}}
{{Infobox Individual
|image       = Anne Travers.jpg
|alias       = Anastasia
|species     = Human
|origin      = [[Earth]]
|birth date  = [[28 October]] [[1937]]
|death date  = [[28 May]] [[2022]]
|job         = Scientific advisor
|father      = Edward Travers
|mother      = Margaret Travers
|brother     = Alun Travers
|grandparent = Lyndon Travers
|spouse      = William Bishop
|child       = Samuel Bishop
|first       = The Web of Fear (TV story)
|appearances = [[Anne Travers - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]
|actor       = Tina Packer
}}{{counterparts |name=Anne Travers |2= Anne Travers (Inferno Earth)}}
[[Dame]] '''Anne Bishop''' OBE (née '''Travers''') was the second child of [[Margaret Travers|Margaret]] and [[Edward Travers]] and [[scientific advisor]] to the [[British Army]] in its fight against the [[Great Intelligence]] and its [[Robot Yeti]] in the [[London Underground]].

== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Anne was born on [[28 October]] [[1937]], eighteen months after her brother, [[Alun Travers]]. Her mother died in [[1943]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Night of the Intelligence (novel)|Night of the Intelligence]]'') She took after her mother's side of the family in appearance, but took after her father in personality. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[One Cold Step (short story)|One Cold Step]]'') She grew up on bedtime stories of the Yetis and [[Second Doctor|the Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Web of Fear (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Web of Fear]]'')

During her childhood she rarely had any contact with her Uncle [[Vincent Travers|Vincent]] (her father's twin) or her cousins, [[Deborah Walker|Deborah]], [[Joe Travers|Joseph]] and [[Patrick Travers|Patrick]], usually only when they all visited the grandfather's house at the same time. This was down to Edward's estrangement from the Travers family, a result of his obsession with the Goff family. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dreamer's Lament (novel)|The Dreamer's Lament]]'')

She would tell Captain Knight years later that she became a scientist because "when I was a little girl I thought I'd like to be a scientist, so I became a scientist." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV series)|The Web of Fear]]'')

[[Rachel Jensen|Professor Rachel Jensen]] was one of her [[lecturer]]s at the [[University of Cambridge]]. Her classmates included [[Allison Williams]] and [[Ruth Ingram]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scales of Injustice (novel)|The Scales of Injustice]]'') She was also friends with [[Liz Shaw]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mind of Stone (novel)|Mind of Stone]]'', ''[[The Enfolded Time (short story)|The Enfolded Time]]'') Another one of her teachers was Professor [[Watkins]] who described her as a "brilliant girl". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'')

Anne Travers spent time in America before being called back to Britain by her father, after he accidentally directed the Great Intelligence to London. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV series)|The Web of Fear]]'')

=== Career ===
Anne and her father helped the Doctor defeat the malevolent entity. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV series)|The Web of Fear]]'') [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] subsequently named her as the first [[scientific advisor]] of his [[UNIT|new forces]] dealing with alien threats. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Memories of Tomorrow (audio story)|Memories of Tomorrow]]'') However, she was summoned back by the British Army and sequestered to a secret [[The Vault (The Scales of Injustice)|Vault]] in [[Northumberland]] to help develop new defensive weapons based on the remains of the Great Intelligence's technologies. She devised two machines, one based on the device she developed with the Doctor previously, which interrupted the Great Intelligence's control of Yeti. Another device, labelled a "web destructor" by Major [[Walter Douglas|Douglas]], was able to evaporate the Great Intelligence's web. Both devices were used in the Cornish village of [[Bledoe]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Forgotten Son (novel)|The Forgotten Son]]'')

She became highly suspicious of the Vault and its true agenda, and as acting as a spy inside it for General [[Oliver Hamilton]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beast of Fang Rock (novel)|Beast of Fang Rock]]'') After a Vault Citadel had been captured, she was taken out to work for the [[Home-Army Fifth Operational Corps]] and quickly grew frustrated that without a proper lab during the move to [[Dolerite Base]], she had nothing to do for weeks. She went out to investigate [[BLIMEY]] with [[Samson Ware]] mainly out of boredom. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Moon Blink (novel)|Moon Blink]]'', ''[[The Showstoppers (novel)|The Showstoppers]]'')

During this time she maintained contact with [[William Bishop]], and eventually realised the depth of her feeling for him. Upon the advice of her friend, [[Ruth McGrath]], Anne finally asked Bishop out on a date, and they officially became an 'item'. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Moon Blink (novel)|Moon Blink]]'', ''[[The Lost Skin (short story)|The Lost Skin]]'', ''[[Mind of Stone (novel)|Mind of Stone]]'', ''[[Night of the Intelligence (novel)|Night of the Intelligence]]'', ''[[The Daughters of Earth (novel)|The Daughters of Earth]]'', ''[[The Dreamer's Lament (novel)|The Dreamer's Lament]]'')

Tragedy struck in [[January]] [[1970]], when her father's mind was consumed by the Great Intelligence. He was 'saved' by [[Thonmi]] Rinpoche, and Anne was able to say goodbye to him on the astral plane. However, it took her a few months to find a way to deal with the loss, and it wasn't until March that she felt able to finally tell her brother, and their family, about Edward's death. Anne then, with Alun, went to see their cousin Deborah, now married to Frank Walker and living in Aylesbury, to try and contact their father's brother. They learned that Vincent had died some years earlier. Anne and Alun held a funeral service for Edward Travers on Wednesday 25th March, which was attended by Anne, Alun, Lethbridge-Stewart, Bill Bishop, Harold Chorley and several members of the Travers and Goff family, including Deborah and her brothers, Patrick and Joe (the latter attended with his own wife and son). After this, the cousins all agreed to remain in touch, repair the damage left by their respective fathers. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Night of the Intelligence (novel)|Night of the Intelligence]]'', ''[[The Dreamer's Lament (novel)|The Dreamer's Lament]]'')

She built a healthy friendship with Sally Wright, and was there to support her following the end of Sally's relationship with Lethbridge-Stewart. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dreamer's Lament (novel)|The Dreamer's Lament]]'')

Three years later, Anne and her father visited the [[United States]] for a year, letting out his home in [[London]] to Professor Watkins and his niece [[Isobel Watkins|Isobel]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'') Part of the reason for the trip was the help establish the scientific arm of the US side of UNIT, working alongside Major [[Adrienne Kramer]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Night of the Intelligence (novel)|Night of the Intelligence]]'')

She succeeded Jensen as chief scientific advisor to the [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom|Cabinet]] in [[1981]], serving in that position for eighteen years. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Enfolded Time (short story)|The Enfolded Time]]'', ''[[The Slow Invasion (short story)|The Slow Invasion]]'', ''[[The Two Brigadiers (short story)|The Two Brigadiers]]'', ''[[Avatars of the Intelligence (novel)|Avatars of the Intelligence]]'')

=== Later life ===
Anne and Bishop were married 1989 and had a son, [[Samuel Bishop|Samuel]]. They were still married by 2017. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Enfolded Time (short story)|The Enfolded Time]]'', ''[[The Slow Invasion (short story)|The Slow Invasion]]'', ''[[The Two Brigadiers (short story)|The Two Brigadiers]]'', ''[[Avatars of the Intelligence (novel)|Avatars of the Intelligence]]'') In late 1989, she visited America with her father, leaving the care of [[Owain Vine|Owain Lethbridge-Stewart]] in the hands of [[Liz Shaw]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Enfolded Time (short story)|The Enfolded Time]]'')

On [[31 December]] [[1999]], Dame Anne Travers OBE, believing that [[Ashley Chapel]] was planning to summon the Great Intelligence, attempted to stop him, accidentally causing London to transform into a mystical realm in which she was the "Hierophant Anastasia". She later sacrificed herself to restore London to normal. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'')

In [[November]] [[2011]], after the Brigadier attended the funeral of [[Joan Pemberton]], Anne and Bill visited him at the nursing home. They believed him about the Gnome he found, that it helped him travel back to [[1981]], and soon were astral projected through time along with him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Scary Monsters (novel)|Scary Monsters]]'', ''[[Fear of the Web (novel)|Fear of the Web]]'') Anne initially arrived in London 1969, during the London Event, in the body of [[Rachel Ashcroft]]. She attempted to pervert the course of history by saving her father from the influence of the Great Intelligence. She sought the help of [[Ruby Slant]], and later learned that she had always been a part of events and was the reason Rachel was killed during the Event. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Fear of the Web (novel)|Fear of the Web]]'')

In [[2017]], Dame Anne Bishop helped [[Lucy Wilson]] save London from the Great Intelligence. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Avatars of the Intelligence (novel)|Avatars of the Intelligence]]'')

In [[2018]] Bill and Anne were taken out of retirement to help a crisis about time being changed in the year [[1896]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[An Ordinary Man (novel)|An Ordinary Man]]'')

On [[Saturday]] [[28 May]], [[2022]], Anne died peacefully in her sleep. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Stories We Tell (short story)|The Stories We Tell]]'')

== Alternate timeline ==
In an alternative timeline where the Doctor was shot by Colonel [[Spencer Pemberton|Pemberton]], Anne's mind was subsumed by the Intelligence and her body used as its host. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacies (short story)|Legacies]]'')

== Behind the scenes ==
Anne's given date of birth in {{cs|Night of the Intelligence (novel)}} makes her exactly eleven months older than her actor, [[Tina Packer]].

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