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(1 September 1781 13 September 1815), held the high rank of secretary to the board of
revenue in the British East India Company.
William had been sent to England earlier, at the age of five, with a short stopover at St.
Helena where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him. He was educated at schools
in Southampton and Chiswick and then at Charterhouse School, where he was a close friend
of John Leech. He disliked Charterhouse, parodying it in his later fiction as "Slaughterhouse."
Illness in his last year there (during which he reportedly grew to his full height of 6'3")
postponed his matriculation at Trinity College, Cambridge, until February 1829. Never too
keen on academic studies, he left the University in 1830. Thackeray's years of semi-idleness
ended after he met and, on 20 August 1836, married Isabella Gethin Shawe (1816-1893),
He primarily worked for Fraser's Magazine,
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