Francis Thackeray

Francis Thackeray (1793–1842) was a Church of England clergyman and author.

Thackeray was the sixth son of William Makepeace Thackeray (1749-1813), and uncle to William Makepeace Thackeray the novelist. Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge,^[1] he was curate of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. Macaulay criticized his History of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham for its uncritical praise of Pitt.^[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
• 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

References

1. "Thackeray, Francis (THKY810F)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
2. Macaulay, Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1834, pp. 508-544

• E. I. Carlyle, ‘Thackeray, Francis (1793–1842)’, rev. Myfanwy Lloyd, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 20 Dec 2007

External links

• Works by or about Francis Thackeray in libraries (WorldCat catalog)