William Terriss

WILLIAM TERRISS (1847-1897)

A cabinet photograph of William Terriss taken by the London Stereoscopic Company.
Click on the image to see a larger version showing Terriss's autograph (link removed).

A few pictures taken in 2004 showing the lifeboat house on Eastbourne seafront, built in 1898 in memory of William Terriss.
Terriss was murdered outside of the Adelphi Theatre in 1897 by Richard Archer Prince.

The lifeboat house was paid for by donations to a fund organised by the Daily Telegraph.

'This life-boat house
Has been erected
In memory of
William Terriss,
With subscriptions received
By the Daily Telegraph
From those who loved
And admired him, and
Who sorrowed together
With all his friends and
Fellow-countrymen at
His most cruel and
Untimely end:
1898.
"Shadows we are, and shadows we pursue." '

Recommended reading: George Rowell, William Terriss and Richard Prince: Two Characters in an Adelphi Melodrama (London: The Society for Theatre Research, 1987).

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