George Thackeray, DD, FLS (1777–1850) was a classical scholar and bibliophile, who served as Provost of King's College Cambridge from 1814 until his death.
[5] Although described in his obituary in the Times as a "most erudite classic" who was said to have greatly improved the university's courses and examinations in his subject,[2] he does not appear to have published anything as an author or editor.
Mary Ann was attended for the birth (at 86 Wimpole Street, her sister's home) by the accoucheur Sir Richard Croft, who had attended Princess Charlotte when she died in childbirth three months earlier (in the so-called "triple obstetrical tragedy").
Croft shot himself in the house while Mary Ann was in labour; it has been speculated (by A. N. L. Munby) that she may have been showing symptoms similar to those that proved fatal in Princess Charlotte's case, though witnesses at the inquest on his death testified that he had been in mental distress ever since the princess's death.
In 2016 the college received a grant from the United Kingdom Heritage Lottery Fund which enabled the online cataloguing and conservation digitisation of the English literature section of the Thackeray rare book collection.