He returned to England and began to study law at the Middle Temple, but soon gave that up. He travelled for some time on the continent, visiting Paris and Weimar, where he met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Title-page to Vanity Fair, drawn by Thackeray, who furnished the illustrations for many of his earlier editions He disliked Charterhouse, parodying it in his later fiction as "Slaughterhouse." He then studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, but was never too keen on academic studies and left the University in 1830. He was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick and then at Charterhouse School, where he was a close friend of caricaturist, John Leech. Helena where the prisoner Napoleon was pointed out to him. William had been sent to England earlier, at the age of five, with a short stopover at St. Henry Carmichael-Smyth married Anne in 1818 and they returned to England shortly after. Richmond Thackeray died on September 13, 1815. The truth was unexpectedly revealed in 1812 when Richmond Thackeray unwittingly invited to dinner the supposedly dead Carmichael-Smyth. This was not true, but her family wanted a better marriage for her than with Carmichael-Smyth, a military man. She was sent abroad after being told that the man she loved, Henry Carmichael-Smyth, had died.
His mother, Anne née Beacher, married Richmond Thackeray on Octoafter being sent to India in 1809. Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India, where his father, Richmond Thackeray, was a high-ranking official in the British East India Company.
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