with an apparent change in direction. Thackeray graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1840, and the following year as a Bachelor of Medicine, having been in receipt of one of the Tancred scholarships endowed at Gonville and Caius for aspiring medical doctors. He did not practise as a doctor, however, and in 1844 he was ordained as a Church of England deacon, becoming a priest in 1845. He was a curate at St Thomas' church in Stockport from 1844 to 1846 (which explains his appearance for Manchester Cricket Club in 1845) and then from 1847 to his death in 1892 he was vicar of Shopland in Essex and curate at nearby Great Wakering. References External links 1817 births 1892 deaths English cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Cambridge Town Club cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers Manchester Cricket Club cricketers Non-international England cricketers North v South cricketers People educated at Eton College Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 19th-century English Anglican priests Midland Counties cricketers Fast v Slow cricketers F