A member of the Inner Temple; c. to the bar 1859; goes the midland circuit; attends the Birmingham, Northampton, and Warwick Sessions (3, _King’s-bench-walk_, _Temple_, E.C.)
23. GOORE, William Henry Postlethwaite, Esq.
Originally of Irish extraction. S. of the late W. H. Goore, Esq., bar.-at-law; b. in Worcestershire 1833; m. Louisa Eugenie, dau. of the late Capt. Hyde, of Hyde End, Berks. A contributor to, and promoter of “The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography of Deceased and Living Personages of Eminence.” A member of the Society of Arts; and an F.R.H.S. (_Bayswater Athenæum_).
A merchant (wine) (14, _Southampton-street_, _Strand_, W.C.)
A merchant (iron ore) (17, _Gracechurch-street_, E.C.)
Acting constructor in the Department of the Controller of the Navy (_Somerset House_, W.C.)
M. a dau. of the late General Sir John Hunter Littler, G.C.B., dep.-gov. of Bengal, and president of the Supreme Council of India. Actuary to the Globe Insurance Company, and to the Equitable Reversionary Society; fellow and member of Council of the Statistical Society (_Cornhill_, E.C.)
Senior examiner of the first-class, and book-keeper in the Audit office (_Somerset House_, W.C.)
A solicitor (22, _Leadenhall-street_, E.C.)
A stock and share broker; member of the Stock Exchange (13, _Royal Exchange_, E.C.)
A merchant of the firm of Mahler, Bros., and Co. (8, _Billiter-square_, E.C.)
A stock and share broker (1, _Royal Exchange-buildings_, E.C.)
An inspector of schools (_Privy Council Office_, S.W.)
Educ. at St. John’s College, Cambridge; obtained his M.A., 1849; ordained 1846. Chaplain to the workhouse of St. George’s, Hanover-square. Formerly curate of St. George’s.
In the office of Her Majesty’s commissioners of works and public buildings (_Whitehall-place_, S.W.)
The eminent novelist. Descended from a Saxon family of Yorksh. S. of — Thackeray, Esq., of the East India Company’s Civil Service; b. in Calcutta, 1811; educ. at Charter House and Cambridge. Originally studied for an artist. A member of the Middle Temple; c. to the bar, 1848. Commenced his literary career in Fraser’s Magazine. His fame as a humourist has been established through the columns of Punch, as a novelist and satirist by his Vanity Fair (published 1846–48), and as a lecturer by his strictures on the Men and Times of the Four Georges. He unsuccessfully contested a seat in Parliament at the Oxford election in 1857 (_Athenæum Club_).