Lance Thackeray

Born in Darlington to Thomas Thackeray and his wife Selina Neish, Thackeray was baptized into the Church of England on 17 February 1867 at St John’s Church, Darlington.

[1] At the 1881 United Kingdom census, Thackeray, one of nine children, was aged fourteen and was still at school, while his father was recorded as a railway foreman porter.

His 82-year old maternal grandfather, originally from Scotland, was living with the family and was a gardener.

[3][4] Thackeray drew the designs for over 950 postcards, mostly humorous, and made a great number of illustrations for the press in England.

At the beginning of the First World War despite being aged over forty, he volunteered for the Artists Rifles.