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About Thackeray:
Thackeray, an only child, was born in Calcutta, India,
where his father, Richmond Thackeray (1 September 1781 –
13 September 1815), held the high rank of secretary to the
board of revenue in the British East India Company. His
mother, Anne Becher (1792–1864; second daughter of John
Harman Becher, a writer for the East India Company, and his
wife Harriet), married Richmond Thackeray on 13 October
1810 after being sent to India in 1809. She was sent abroad
after being told that the man she loved, Henry Carmichael Smyth, had died.
