Francis Thackeray
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Francis Thackeray | |
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Born | 1793 |
Died | 1813 (aged 63–64) |
Education | Pembroke College, Cambridge |
Spouse |
Mary Ann Shakespear
(m. 1829; died 1813) |
Children | 3+, including Francis and Edward |
Relatives | Thomas Thackeray (grandfather) William Thackeray (nephew) |
Francis Thackeray (1793–1842) was a Church of England clergyman and author.
Life
Thackeray was the sixth son of William Makepeace Thackeray (1749–1813) and his wife Amelia Webb, grandson of Thomas Thackeray (1693–1760), Head Master of Harrow School, and uncle of William Makepeace Thackeray, the novelist. Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he was curate of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.[1][2]
Works
- A defence of the clergy of the Church of England, 1822
- A history of the Right Honourable William Pitt, earl of Chatham, 1827; Macaulay claimed its praise of Pitt the elder was uncritical.[3]
- Order against anarchy, 1831. A reply to Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
- Researches into the ecclesiastical and political state of ancient Britain under the Roman emperors, 1843
Family
Thackeray married in 1829 Mary Ann Shakespear (died 1851), daughter of John Shakespear. Their sons included Francis St. John Thackeray (1832–1907), and Edward Talbot Thackeray. Their daughter Mary Augusta Thackeray was given an album of drawings about Bluebeard by William Makepeace Thackeray, her first cousin, in 1841.[1][4][5][6]
References
- ^ a b Lloyd, Myfanwy. "Thackeray, Francis (1793–1842)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27152. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Thackeray, Francis (THKY810F)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Macaulay, Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1834, pp. 508–544
- ^ "Talbot Correspondence Project: Thackeray Mary Ann, née Shakespear to Talbot William Henry Fox". Retrieved 2 September 2017.
- ^ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland, for ...: Including All the Titled Classes. S. Low, Marston & Company. 1901. p. 820.
- ^ "The library of Jerome Kern, New York City. Part two: J-Z : to be sold by his order". Internet Archive. New York: Anderson Galleries. 1929. p. 422. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
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