One contemporary who tried to bridge the gap, William Makepeace Thackeray, established a tentative cordial relationship in the late 1840s only to see everything collapse when Disraeli took offence at a burlesque of him which Thackeray penned for Punch.

Never quite losing his Devonshire accent, he was not only an amiable and original conversationalist but a friendly and generous host, so that Fanny Burney recorded in her diary that he had " a suavity of disposition that set everybody at their ease in his society ", and William Makepeace Thackeray believed " of all the polite men of that age, Joshua Reynolds was the finest gentleman.

Thackeray has Rosalind using their as a polite circumlocution, perhaps avoiding the directness of she ... her, and generic his in a context involving only women ; or perhaps with Rosalind meaning the statement to apply to people in general with Becky Sharp as an example.

During the Victorian era, Thackeray was ranked second only to Charles Dickens, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for Vanity Fair.

Thackeray meant the book to be not only entertaining but also instructive, an intention demonstrated through the book's narration and through Thackeray's private correspondence.

An early rival to Dickens was William Makepeace Thackeray, who during the Victorian period ranked second only to him, but he is now much less read and is known almost exclusively for

Having been provoked by Abu Azmi that he would not take the oath as legislator in Marathi, Raj Thackeray had earlier warned the legislators to " take their oaths in Marathi only or else face dire consequences ".

Lamenting that strikes and bandhs only add to the misery of the Marathi-speaking community in Belgaum, Thackeray said: “ If the Karnataka government is ready to respect the Marathi people, their culture and language, then there is nothing wrong in Belgaum being there .”.

His political philosophy was largely shaped by his father Keshav Sitaram Thackeray, a leading figure in the Samyukta Maharashtra movement ( United Maharashtra movement ), which advocated the creation of a separate linguistic state of Maharashtra.

He was born to Keshav Sitaram Thackeray ( also known as ' Prabodhankar ' Thackeray because of his articles in his fortnightly magazine named Prabodhan or ' Enlightenment ') Marathi family.

Keshav Thackeray was a progressive social activist and writer who was against caste biases and played a key role in the Samyukta Maharashtra Chalwal ( literally, United Maharashtra Movement ) in the 1950s to form the Marathi-speaking state of Maharashtra with Mumbai as its capital.

During the tenure of the government from 1995 to 1999, Thackeray was nicknamed ' remote control ' since he played a major role in government policies and decisions from behind the scenes.

On July 28, 1999 Bal Thackeray was banned from voting and contesting in any election for six years from December 11, 1999 till December 10, 2005 on the recommendations of the Election Commission.

After the six-year voting ban on Bal Thackeray was lifted in 2005, he voted for the first time in the 2006 BMC elections .< ref name =" Voting ban lifted ">

In view of the success of her novels, particularly Jane Eyre, Charlotte was persuaded by her publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in a more exalted social circle, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell, and acquainted with William Makepeace Thackeray and G. H. Lewes.

According to Balakrishna the public sector companies in response to Sena's violent pressure, began employing Maharashtrians in large numbers, the company owners didn't object to the Sena entry in to trade unionism since " Thackeray ruled like a dictator, one phone call was enough to ensure peace on the shop floor.

Victorian Britain, like the periods before it, was interested in literature ( see Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle and William Makepeace Thackeray ), theatre and the arts ( see Aesthetic movement and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ), and music, drama, and opera were widely attended.

William Makepeace Thackeray (; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863 ) was an English novelist of the 19th century.

" ( Nevertheless Thackeray was honoured in the Charterhouse Chapel with a monument after his death.

He was narrowly beaten by Cardwell ( 1070 votes, against 1005 for Thackeray ).

In 1860 Thackeray became editor of the newly established Cornhill Magazine, but was never comfortable as an editor, preferring to contribute to the magazine as a columnist, producing his Roundabout Papers for it.

On 23 December 1863, after returning from dining out and before dressing for bed, Thackeray suffered a stroke and was found dead in his bed in the morning.

There was a fine miniature portrait of Anne Becher Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray, about age 2, done in Madras by George Chinnery c. 1813.

Anne's family's deception was unexpectedly revealed in 1812, when Richmond Thackeray unwittingly invited the supposedly dead Carmichael-Smyth to dinner.

Bal Keshav Thackeray (; born 23 January 1926 ), popularly known as Hindu Hriday Samraat Balasaheb Thackeray is an Indian politician, founder and chief of the Shiv Sena, a right-wing Hindu nationalist, and Marathi ethnocentric party active mainly in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.

* Andy Thackeray ( born 1968 ), an English former professional footballer

* Anthony Thackeray ( born 1986 ), an English rugby league footballer

* Bal Thackeray ( born 1926 ), an Indian politician

* David Thackeray ( footballer ) ( born 1902 ), Scottish footballer

* Peter Thackeray ( born 1950 ), a cricketer

* Raj Thackeray ( born 1968 ), an Indian politician

* Uddhav Thackeray ( born 1960 ), an Indian politician

Raj Shrikant Thackeray () ( born 14 June 1968 ) is the founder and president of the right-wing Marathi ethnocentric regional political party, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (" Maharashtra Reformation Army ") in the state of Maharashtra, India.

Raj was born on 14 June 1968 in a Marathi Kayastha ( CKP ) family to Shrikant Thackeray ( younger brother of Bal Thackeray ) and Kunda Thackeray ( younger sister of Bal Thackeray's wife Meena Thackeray ).

Uddhav Thackeray () ( born 27 July 1960 ) is the executive president of the Shiv Sena, a right-wing, Marathi ethnocentric regional political party based in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Anne Becher and Richmond Thackeray were married in Calcutta on 13 October 1810.

Shiv Sena ( Marathi: Śiv Senā, meaning Army of Shiv, also SS ), is a political organisation in India founded on 19 June 1966 by political cartoonist Bal Thackeray.

While in India he had married ( 1772 ) Jane Thackeray, daughter of Dr. Thomas Thackeray, headmaster of Harrow, and a great-aunt of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray.

Thackeray was 20 years old, and a second lieutenant in the Bengal Engineers, Bengal Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 16 September 1857 at Delhi, British India for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross

According to a Times of India article dated November 22, 2004, he was handpicked by Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray for the post.

Since the creation of his party, Raj Thackeray has opposed immigration into Maharashtra from North India.

According to Raj Thackeray, he is against immigrants specifically from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and not from North India or elsewhere, in general.