William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray
Birthdate:	June 20, 1749
Birthplace:	Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Death:	March 11, 1813 (63) Monken Hadley, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:	Son of Rev. Thomas Thackeray, DD and Anne Thackeray Husband of Amelia Richmond Thackeray Father of William Thackeray; Amelia Shakespear; Richmond Makepeace Thackeray; Charlotte Sarah Ritchie; Rev. Francis Thackeray and 6 others Brother of Anne Griffies; Katherine Thackeray; Elias Thackeray, B.D.; Thomas Thackeray; John Thackeray and 11 others

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Thackeray, William Makepeace (1749-1814) was born in Harrow, England, 20 June 1749. Son of Dr. Thomas Thackeray, head-master of Harrow School, and Ann Woodward, William Makepeace Thackeray, known as 'Sylhet Thackeray', joined the east india company at 15 as a book-keeper. He sailed for India on the Lord Camden in February 1766.

By December of 1767 Thackeray had been promoted to the post of Assistant to the President of the board of trade and in August 1771 became the fourth member in Council at Dhaka, then the chief seat of the Company in Eastern Bengal. He travelled from Kolkata to Dhaka accompanied by his sister Jane, who married the cartographer james rennell on 15 October 1772.

Thackeray, in that year, was appointed Collector of Sylhet, with instructions to impose order on the Company’s procedures for collecting tax revenues. There Thackeray served as tax collector, road and bridge builder and magistrate, and ensured the Company’s monopoly over the lime, salt and tobacco trades.

Following continued incursions by parties of Jaintia hill tribesmen onto the Sylhet plain, Thackeray led a military campaign against the Raja to secure the free passage of Company trade along the Surma river. Thackeray's troops overwhelmed resistance in the Jaintia hills in March 1773, following which Sylhet was attached to the Dhaka district on 22 July of that year.

Between 1774 and 1776 Thackeray was involved in a celebrated case which he brought against the East India Company after their failure to pay him for elephants which he had caught in Sylhet and supplied to the Company for use by the British army. Having won the case, he married Amelia Webb in Kolkata on 31 January 1776. They left India permanently on 19 January 1777. Six of their seven sons served in India, the second, Richmond, was the father of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, born in Bengal in 1811. 'Sylhet Thackeray' died in Hadley Green, Middlesex, England in 1814. [Aled George Jones]

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1649	July 11, 1649	Baptism of William Makepeace Thackeray St. Mary's Church, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
1749	June 20, 1749	Birth of William Makepeace Thackeray Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
1778	May 9, 1778	Birth of William Thackeray Marylebone, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
1780	August 19, 1780	Birth of Amelia Shakespear England
1781	September 1, 1781	Birth of Richmond Makepeace Thackeray South Mimms, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
1785	February 17, 1785	Birth of Augusta Thackeray Monken Hadley, Middlesex, England (United Kingdom)
1786	1786	Birth of Charlotte Sarah Ritchie Monken Hadley, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
1788	March 31, 1788	Birth of Webb Thackeray Hertfordshire, England (United Kingdom)
1789	July 29, 1789	Birth of Thomas Thackeray

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