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 in India in 1798, at the age of sixteen, and filled various district appointments, till, in 1807, he became secretary to the Board of Revenue in Calcutta. Here he married Miss Becher, daughter of another old civilian family, and here, on the 18th of July, 1811, was born his famous son: if tradition be true, in the house which became later the Armenian convent. Before his little son was six months old, Richmond Thackeray became Collector of the Twenty-four Pergunnahs, and removed with his family to Alipore, where they lived in the house which had been "The Lodge" of Philip Francis. There he died, four years later, and from there the long procession of his funeral made its way down the oft-trodden road to the Park Street Burial Ground. His long and formal epitaph thus records his virtues, and the admiration of his friends:—

To the Memory of , late on the Bengal Establishment of the Honourable East India Company, who expired on the 13th September, 181 5, at the premature age of 32 years, 10 months, and 23 days. To the best endowments of the understanding, and to the purest principles in public life, he united all the social and tender affections : under the influence of these moral and intellectual qualities he ever maintained the character of a public officer with the highest degree of credit to himself, and discharged in a manner