India).Theship on which he travelled made a short stopover at St.Helena where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him.Once in England he was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick and then at Charterhouse School where he was a close friend of John Leech.He disliked Charterhouse,[2]parodying it in his later fiction as "Slaughterhouse."(Nevertheless Thackeray was honoured in the Charterhouse Chapel with a monument after his death.) Illness in his last year there(during which he reportedly grew to his full height of63")postponed his matriculation at 10 Trinity College,Cambridge,until February 1829.Never too keen onacademicstudies,heleft the University in 1830. though some ofhis earliest writingappeared in university publications The Snob and The Gownsman.[3] He travelled for some time on the continent,visiting Paris and Weimar,where he met Goethe.He returned to England and began to study law at the Middle Temple,but soongave that up.On reachingthe age of21 he came into his inheritance but he squandered much of it on gamblingand by fundingtwo unsuccessful newspapers,The National Standard and The Constitutional for which he had hoped to write.He also lost a India). The ship on which he travelled made a short stopover at St. Helena where the imprisoned Napoleon was pointed out to him. Once in England he was educated at schools in Southampton and Chiswick and then at Charterhouse School, where he was a close friend of John Leech. He disliked Charterhouse,[2] parodying it in his later fiction as "Slaughterhouse." (Nevertheless Thackeray was honoured in the Charterhouse Chapel with a monument after his death.) Illness in his last year there (during which he reportedly grew to his full height of 6' 3") postponed his matriculation at Trinity College, Cambridge, until February 1829. Never too keen on academic studies, he left the University in 1830, though some of his earliest writing appeared in university publications The Snob and The Gownsman.[3] He travelled for some time on the continent, visiting Paris and Weimar, where he met Goethe. He returned to England and began to study law at the Middle Temple, but soon gave that up. On reaching the age of 21 he came into his inheritance but he squandered much of it on gambling and by funding two unsuccessful newspapers, The National Standard and The Constitutional for which he had hoped to write. He also lost a 10’