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While at Cambridge University, Thackeray dissipated part of his inheritance, and the rest he lost when the Indian Agency houses in which it was invested collapsed. Born in India of a Collector in the East India Company, he came to England in 1817 and went to school at Charterhouse. At Cambridge he established long-term friendships with Edward Fitzgerald, Tennyson and Richard Monckton Milnes. He left without taking a degree.
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Martin, B. (1989). William Makepeace Thackeray. In: Martin, B. (eds) The Nineteenth Century (1798–1900). Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20159-4_32
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