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A History of the County of Middlesex
… 46. 40 In this crisis the governors appointed Dr. Thomas Thackeray, an Etonian and former Eton master whose strong … since few of the latter could afford the fees. Moreover, Thackeray fostered his connexions with the Whig nobility by … later to a decline in numbers. 41 Robert Sumner (1760-71), Thackeray's successor, incurred the wrath of some influential …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 13 a. formed out of common land south of the house. 84 The Thackeray family lived at Kitts End in the later 18th … moving to Monken Hadley manor-house. 85 William Makepeace Thackeray, an officer in the Bengal civil service, was … there in 1780 and in the following year his son Richmond Thackeray, father of the novelist, was baptized at South …
Survey of London
… for texture akin to the work by Eustace Balfour and Thackeray Turner in Mayfair. St. Mary Abbot's Place is an …
Old and New London
… and mesmeric influences, upon which he wrote largely. Thackeray, it may be added, was taken ill when writing …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… had previously been Evans' Supper Rooms. immortalized by Thackeray. The Earl of Lonsdale was elected president of the …
Old and New London
… while the Great Exhibition was attracting its thousands, Thackeray here first appeared in public as a lecturer, taking … Emanuel is related.' The remarks of this singular woman on Thackeray and his writings, and her accounts of other … in the above-mentioned year. "There are traces," writes Thackeray, "of a 'tiff' between them in the middle of the …
Old and New London
… such as often would serve to illustrate the assertion. Thackeray, in one of his "Lectures on English Humorists," … close to where now stands the Conservative Club, that Thackeray began and finished "The Luck of Barry Lyndon," …
Old and New London
… and kept a good table too. "Cannot one fancy," writes Thackeray, "Joseph Addison's calm smile and cold grey eyes …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 11 The same house was visited in the 1840s by Dickens and Thackeray when it housed Frederick Mullet Evans (d. 1870), …
London Inhabitants within the Walls
… Rob; Ursula, w; Kath, d, 9.34 Thacker Han, wid, 59.11 Thackeray Wm, 14.13 Thacknall Hugh, app, 43.6 Thamwood Ann, …