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R. FRED TERRY is a North Londoner by birth, and was educated first at a school at Notting Hill and afterwards at Dr. Quine's, where Mr. Fred Leslie was one of his schoolfellows. He was then sent to reside with a family at Geneva, in order to acquire a knowledge of French, which he speaks with great fluency. At sixteen he made his first appearance on the stage in "Money," at the Haymarket, at that time under the management of the Bancrofts. After playing the lead in the first provincial tour of "In the Ranks," he appeared at the Lyceum as Sebastian in "Twelfth Night," in which his sister, Miss Ellen Terry, played the part of Viola. In 1889 he created the part of Olivier Deschamps, in "Esther Sandrez.". The most conspicuous of his subsequent successes have been, perhaps, Gilbert Vaughan in "Called Back" and John Christianson in "The Dancing Girl," at the Haymarket—the latter play being noteworthy as that in which Mr. Fred Terry's wife, Miss Julia Neilson, made so conspicuous a success in the part of Drusilla Ives. We may remind our readers that Mrs. Fred Terry's portraits appeared in our number for last August.