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TERRISS, WILLIAM (18471897) , English actor, whose real name was William Charles James Lewin, was born in London on the loth of February
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appearance in London was as Lord Cloudrays in Robertson's Society, at the old Prince of Wales's theatre. He quickly came into fawur in " hero " parts, and appeared at the principal
melodrama , and it was in this capacity that for the rest of his career he was best known, though he occasionally acted elsewhere, notably with Irving at the Lyceum. His last appearance was in Secret Service. On the 16th of December 1897, as he was entering the Adelphi theatre, he was stabbed to death by a madman, Richard Arthur Prince. Terriss married Miss Isabel
Seymour Hicks) became a well-known actress in musical comedy, in association withher husband Edward
Seymour Hicks (b. 1871), proprietor of the Aldwych and Hicks theatres in London.Sec Arthur J. Smythe, The Life
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