It was a very substantial estate of 17,000 pounds, an enormous sum of money at the time. Now, having reached 21, he received his father’s inheritance. Back in London a final attempt was made on a professional career. He now spent some time travelling across Europe stopping at both Paris, to study art, and to winter in Weimar.
As an author, he would have quite some impact on English literature in the years to come, so it seems difficult to reconcile that he felt no urgency to pursue writing at that time. He had however published two short works in University periodicals. However, Thackeray’s lazy attitude to completely mastering anything he set his mind too, especially where ambition for academia was involved, meant he departed Cambridge little more than a year after joining. Excess was something he could enjoy and for a man who stood some 6’ 3” it would appear to the eye that, initially at least, his large frame could absorb much of that excess. Over the course of his life Thackeray would suffer from ill health, much of it brought about for his fondness for “gluttling and gorging”. In his final year at Charterhouse a troubling illness delayed his departure to attend Cambridge University. Despite his less than respectful recalling of his time with them Charterhouse placed a monument in the chapel after his death. Charterhouse and Thackeray did not take to each other but the time became a valuable source for his later work "Slaughterhouse". The Imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him by a servant with the words that he "eats three sheep every day, and all the little children he can lay hands on!"įinally, back in England the young Thackeray was sent to school, initially in Southampton and Chiswick, before being moved to Charterhouse School. En-route to England the ship stopped for provisions on St. His father died in 1815, and his mother sent Thackeray to England the following year while she remained in India and would, sometime later, marry her childhood sweetheart. His mother, Anne Becher also worked for the British East India Company. William Makepeace Thackeray, was born on July 18 th, 1811 in Calcutta, then British India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray was the secretary to the Board of Revenue in the British East India Company. Selected products from William Makepeace Thackeray
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