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{{Infobox military person
|name=Sir Edward Talbot Thackeray
|birth_date=19 October 1836
|death_date=3 September 1927 (aged 90)
|birth_place=[[Broxbourne]], [[Hertfordshire]]
|death_place=[[Garessio]], [[Italy]]
|placeofburial=The English Cemetery, [[Bordighera]]
|image=Victoria Cross Medal without Bar.png
|image_size=125
|caption=
|nickname=
|allegiance= {{UK}}
|serviceyears=
|rank=[[Colonel]]
|branch=[[Bengal Army]]<br>[[British Army]]
|commands=
|unit=
|battles=[[Indian Mutiny]]<br>[[Second Anglo-Afghan War]]
|awards= [[Victoria Cross]]<br>[[Order of the Bath]]
|relations=[[William Makepeace Thackeray]] (1st cousin)
}}
Colonel '''Sir Edward Talbot Thackeray''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|VC|KCB}} (19 October 1836 – 3 September 1927) was an [[England|English]] recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]], the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] forces.

The son of Rev. [[Francis Thackeray]] and Mary Anne Shakespear, he was the first cousin of the novelist, [[William Makepeace Thackeray]]. He was educated at [[Marlborough College]] and [[Addiscombe Military Seminary]].<ref>Philip A. Wilkins, ''The History of the Victoria Cross: Being an account of the 520 acts of bravery for which the decoration has been awarded and portraits of 392 recipients'', Andrews UK Limited, 2012, {{ISBN|1781516731}}, 9781781516737</ref>

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
{{quote|For cool intrepidity and characteristic daring in extinguishing a fire in the Delhi Magazine enclosure, on the 16th of September, 1857, under a close and heavy musketry fire from the enemy, at the imminent risk of his life from the explosion of combustible stores in the shed in which the fire occurred.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22621|page=2229|date=29 April 1862}}</ref>}}

He later achieved the rank of [[colonel]], and was elected to the [[Athenaeum Club, London|Athenaeum]] in 1876. Thackeray retired from the Army in 1888 and in 1898 he went to live in Italy where he spent the rest of his life.

His medal is currently displayed at the [[National Museum of Military History (South Africa)|National Museum of Military History]] in [[Johannesburg]], [[South Africa]].

==Works==
* [https://archive.org/stream/biographicalnoti00thaciala#page/n17/mode/2up Biographical notices of officers of the Royal (Bengal) engineers; (1900)]

==References and sources==
;References
{{reflist}}
;Sources
*''[[Monuments to Courage]]'' (David Harvey, 1999)
*''[[The Register of the Victoria Cross]]'' (This England, 1997)
*''[[The Sapper VCs]]'' (Gerald Napier, 1998)

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090106144039/http://www.remuseum.org.uk/vc/rem_vc_thackeray.htm Profile], remuseum.org.uk. Accessed 2 December 2022.
* {{Find a Grave|11864746}}

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