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TERRISS, WILLIAM (18471897)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 660 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TAV-THE
TERRISS, WILLIAM (18471897) , English actor, whose real name was William Charles James Lewin, was born in London on the loth of
February
  1847. After trying the merchant service,
medicine
 , sheep-farming in the Falkland Isles, and tea-planting in Bengal, in 1867 he took to the stage, for which his handsome presence, fine voice and gallant bearing eminently fitted him. His first
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
  London theatres from 1868 onwards. In 188o he joined Irving's company at the Lyceum, playing such parts as Cassio and Mercutio, and in 1885 he acted there with Mary Anderson, as Romeo to her Juliet, &c. He was then engaged to take the leading parts in Adelphi
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
  Lewis, and his daughter Ellaline Terriss (Mrs
Seymour
  Hicks) became a well-known actress in musical comedy, in association with
her husband
Edward
 
Seymour
  Hicks (b. 1871), proprietor of the Aldwych and Hicks theatres in London.
Sec Arthur J. Smythe, The
Life
  of William remiss (London, 1898).


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