A biographical memoir of the late Dr. Joseph Thackeray, of Bedford.

Date:
[1832?]
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Credit: A biographical memoir of the late Dr. Joseph Thackeray, of Bedford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    D Thackeray was a medical practitioner in the service of the India Company, from which he long since retired with an ample fortune; Dr. William Thackeray prac¬ tises as a physician at Chester; the IIev. Elias Thack¬ eray is rector of Dundalk, in the county of Louth; the Rev. John Richard Thackeray holds the livings of Downham, in Norfolk, and of Hadley in Middlesex; Dr. Frederick Thackeray practises at Cambridge, where lie is physician to Addenbrook’s Hospital; and Martin Thackeray is fellow and vice-provost of King’s College, Cambridge. How different would the fate of this family have been, if contracted views and narrow policy had, in order to enhance their pecuniary patri¬ mony, witheld those advantages, which, by calling forth their own powers, enabled them to pass usefully and happily through life, and to attain each an honora¬ ble independence. In 1793, Joseph Thackeray was, at nine years of age, placed at Eton School, where he continued for nine years, during which period his gentle manners and amiable disposition secured him the affection of his companions, while his diligence and good conduct obtained for him the cordial approbation of'his teachers. With great natural humility, he possessed both moral and physical courage to support the dictates of his higher sentiments, as many anecdotes both of his boyish and riper years would exemplify. As a boy he ever protected the weak against the strong, the opres- sed against the oppressor; and in the cause of his feebler companions he sustained personal conflicts to which he would never, on his own account, have been exposed. In 1802, he was admitted a King’s Scholar, of King’s College, Cambridge; and, in 1805, was elected a Fellow. In 1806, he took his degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1809, that of Master. On taking his bachelor’s degree, he was induced, by the advice of his friends, to adopt medicine as a profession,
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