TERRY, ELLEN ALICE, an English actress; born in Coventry, England, Feb. 27, 1848, and made her first appearance on the stage during Charles Kean's Shakespearian revivals in 1858, playing the parts of Mamillius in "The Winter's Tale" and Prince Arthur in "King John." When only 14 she was a member of ivir. Chute's Bristol Company. She reap peared in London, March, 1863, as Ger trude in "The Little Treasure," and till January, 1864, played Hero in "Much Ado About Nothing," Mary Meredith in "Our American Cousin," and other sec ondary parts. In that year she married Watts, the painter, and left the stage, but reappeared again in October, 1867, in "The Double Marriage" at the New Queen's Theater, London. She after ward joined Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft at the Prince of Wales' Theater, where she acted the part of Portia. On Dec. 30, 1878, she made her first appearance at the Lyceum, and, in conjunction with Mr. Irving, played in the longest runs ever known of "Hamlet," "The Merchant of Venice," "Romeo and Juliet," and "Much Ado About Nothing." She also
appeared as Viola in "Twelfth Night," Henrietta Maria in "Charles I.," Camma in Tennyson's tragedy of "The Cup," Ruth Meadows in "Eugene Aram," as Marguerite in W. G. Wills' "Faust" (re vived in 1849), as Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth," as Lucy Ashton in "Ravens wood," as Queen Catherine in "Henry VIII.," as Cordelia in "King Lear," as Rosamonde in "Becket" (1893), as Imo gen in "Cymbeline" (1896) ; as Madame Sans-Gene (1897) ; and in "Peter the Great" (1898). She accompanied Mr. Irving on his numerous American tours. playing with unprecedented success all over the United States. Her jubilee was celebrated at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, in 1906. She published "The Story of My Life" (1908), and "The Russian Ballet" (1913).