FLORENCE, WILLIAM JERMYN (1831-1891), Ameri can actor, of Irish descent, whose real name was Bernard Conlin, was born on July 26, 1831, at Albany, N.Y., and first attracted attention as an actor at Brougham's Lyceum in 1851. Two years later he married Mrs. Malvina Pray Littell (d. 1906), in associa tion with whom, until her retirement in 1889, he won all his suc cesses, notably in Benjamin Woolf's The Mighty Dollar, said to have been presented more than 2,500 times. In 1856 they had a successful London season, Mrs. Florence being one of the first American actresses to appear on the English stage. His last ap pearance was with Joseph Jefferson (with whom he had main tained a successful partnership) , on Nov. 14, 1891, as Ezekiel Homespun in The Heir-at-law, and he died on Nov. 18 in Phila delphia.