His father was Richmond Thackeray, son of W.M.Thackeray of Hadley, near Barnet, in Middlesex.

A relation of his, of the same name, a Rev.Mr.
Thackeray, I knew well as rector of Hadley, many years afterwards.

Him I believe to have been a second cousin of our Thackeray, but I think they had never met each other.

Another cousin was Provost of Kings at Cambridge, fifty years ago, as Cambridge men will remember.

Clergymen of the family have been numerous in England during the century, and there was one, a Rev.Elias Thackeray, whom I also knew in my youth, a dignitary, if I remember right, in the diocese of Meath.