LORD BYRON and his TIMES
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| LBT ID: FrThack1852 | B/BAP: 1774-02-11 DIED: 1852-06-18 |
| SOURCES: Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry (1863) 2:1493; Mark Weatherall, Gentlemen, scientists, and doctors: medicine at Cambridge 1800-1940 (2000) 30-31 | |
Son of Thomas Thackeray, surgeon, he was educated at Emmanuel College Cambridge and
practiced medicine in that city. He quarrelled with Sir Isaac Pennington over whether
surgeons were eligible for medical degrees. | |
