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Description: | The house known as Thackeray's House has only slight connections with William Makepeace Thackeray. Born in Calcutta in 1816, his father was an civil servant in India who died in 1816 and his mother remarried in 1918 to Major Henry Carmichael Smith. Thackeray occasionally stopped in Fareham during his holidays from school with his great grandmother, Mrs Ann Becher who had settled in Fareham after the death of her husband Captain John Becher R.N. in 1783. Mrs Becher died in 1825 aged 88 when Thackeray was 14 and there is no record of any of the family here after that date.
Reference:
1. Privett, George. 1949. The Story of Fareham. P, 92-94.
Copy photograph of a photograph. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council | Subjects: | West Street Ann Becher building Thackeray's House William Makepeace Thackeray street Portland Street Henry Carmichael Smith house | Temporal: | start=1885-01-01; end=1915-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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