Author: Thackwray, William
Biography:
THACKWRAY, William (fl 1808-10)
Watt lists him as a "Private Teacher," the author of teaching tools: a Practical Treatise on the use of the globes in geography, and two related titles (1810-11). His wife Mrs. Thackwray published with Darton A Grammatical Catechism (1810) and Darton also advertised his Historical and Chronological Table, of which there is no recorded extant copy, in 1810. The Thackwrays ran a boarding-school of some repute, Marlborough House in Walworth. He is probably the William Thackwray (1780-1824) who married Charlotte Prickett at St. Andrew, Holborn, in 1807 and then (if the same man) died and is buried in Camden. (A better documented man of the same name was a Yorkshireman born in 1779 who emigrated with his wife and a large family to South Africa in 1820, but he was not a writer.) He is not known to have written poetry and there is no clear justification for the attribution to him of the Philadelphia publication The Ten Commandments, in Verse (1818) but his name is on the title-page: "William Thackwray, Walworth." (ancestry.com 19 Nov. 2020; Watt; Darton; advertisement by Darton in London: A Descriptive Poem [1811]) HJ