Francis Thackeray
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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, he was curate of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. Macaulay criticized his History of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham for its uncritical praise of Pitt.[1]
[edit] 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
[edit] References
- ^ 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
[edit] External links
- Works by or about Francis Thackeray in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
