Thomas Brittain Vacher (1805–1880) was a British

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, legal stationer, and

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. He founded ''Vacher's Parliamentary Companion'', a parliamentary reference work which continues to this day as ''Vachers Quarterly'', published by Dods.

Biography

Vacher was the son of the stationer Thomas Vacher of Parliament Street, Westminster, where he was born. He went into business with his brother George; the third son Charles Vacher was known as an artist. Thomas Brittain Vacher was himself an amateur artist. He married in 1850. Vacher was the author of ''Brief Prayers for Travellers'' (1868). His son, the architect

Sydney Vacher Sydney Vacher (2 April 1854 – 11 January 1935) was an English architect. Biography Vacher was born in Kensington, the son of Thomas Brittain Vacher (1805–80). He entered a partnership with Evelyn Hellicar in the late 1880s. Their office was ...

, designed the elaborate

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in St Margaret's church, Westminster as a memorial to him.

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