In 1830 Thackeray decided to leave Cambridge University without taking a degree and went to stay in Germany where he met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This was not a debt he could pay until he received his inheritance when he came of age in three years time. One evening he lost over £1,500 playing cards. He also acquired a dangerous taste for gambling. Initially, he had high hopes of academic success, but instead of spent his time enjoying himself rather than studying. Thackeray went to Trinity College in 1829. Thackeray commented that Charterhouse should have been called "Slaughter House". His nose was so badly shattered that he was disfigured for life. Thackeray was bullied by the older boys and on one occasion he was forced to fight an older boy. He was quite near-sighted and, having no spectacles, was unable to take a very active role in games."
Shillingsburg, has argued: "Thackeray's academic achievements at Charterhouse were not outstanding, though his natural abilities caused him to rise through the ranks respectably. At the time he was described as a "gentle and rather timid boy." His biographer, Peter L. In 1819 he entered a school at Chiswick where he remained until December 1821, after which he was enrolled at Charterhouse. He also remembered kneeling by his bed at night, and saying, "Pray God, I may dream of my mother!" He hated the experience and later wrote that the school "of which our deluded parents had heard a favourable report, but which was governed by a horrible little tyrant, who made our young lives so miserable". Thackeray was sent to school at Southampton when he was only six years old. His mother remained to marry Henry Carmichael-Smyth in 1817 and three years later the couple returned to England. At the age of five he was sent to England and was looked after by his aunt Charlotte Sarah (Richmond's sister) and her husband, John Ritchie. Richmond Thackeray died aged 34 on 13th September 1815 leaving an estate worth £17,000. He later recalled that he remembered "great saloons and people dancing in them, enormous idols and fireworks, riders on elephants or in gigs, and fogs clearing away and pagodas appearing over the trees." The family lived in a mansion serviced by a large staff and the first few years were lived in great luxury. His father was the secretary to the board of revenue in the East India Company. William Makepeace Thackeray, the only child of Richmond Thackeray (1781–1815) and Anne Becher (1792–1864), was born in Calcutta on 18th July, 1811.
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