He was the son of Francis St John Thackeray and nephew to the author William Makepeace Thackeray. He was a scholar of
King's College,
University of Cambridge, who is perhaps best remembered for his work on Josephus, for his
Grammar of Old Testament Greek and for his translation of
Friedrich Blass'
Grammar of New Testament Greek. He also worked as the Grinfield Lecturer on the Septuagint at
Oxford University. His untimely death at the age of sixty-one in 1930 abruptly ended his work as editor and translator of Josephus's works for the
Loeb Classical Library, after producing the first four volumes, and preparing part of the fifth, of a projected series of nine volumes. The work was then carried on by the American scholar,
Ralph Marcus, and after him by
Allen Wikgren and lastly
Louis Feldman. ==Family==