In the office of Her Majesty’s commissioners of works and public buildings (Whitehall-place, S.W.)
THACKERAY William Makepeace, Esq.
The eminent novelist. Descended from a Saxon family of Yorksh. S. of — Thackeray, Esq., of the East India Company’s Civil Service; b. in Calcutta, 1811; educ. at Charter House and Cambridge. Originally studied for an artist. A member of the Middle Temple; c. to the bar, 1848. Commenced his literary career in Fraser’s Magazine. His fame as a humourist has been established through the columns of Punch, as a novelist and satirist by his Vanity Fair (published 1846–48), and as a lecturer by his strictures on the Men and Times of the Four Georges. He unsuccessfully contested a seat in Parliament at the Oxford election in 1857 (Athenæum Club).
PEMBROKE COTTAGES (North).
2. REA, William, Esq., Jun.
In the Receiver-General’s Department of the Inland Revenue Office (Somerset House, W.C.)
3. HERTZ, Joseph Adolphus, Esq.
A merchant (8, Moorgate-st., E.C.)
4. BORCKENSTEIN, Henry, Esq.
A merchant (8, Moorgate-st., E.C.)