Francis Thackeray

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, he was curate of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. Macaulay criticized his "History" of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham for its uncritical praise of Pitt. [Macaulay, "Edinburgh Review", Jan. 1834, pp. 508-544]

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

*E. I. Carlyle, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27152 ‘Thackeray, Francis (1793–1842)’] , rev. Myfanwy Lloyd, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 20 Dec 2007

External links

*worldcat id|lccn-n87-860523


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