Terry, Ellen

(Mrs. Charles Kelly), the most celebrated of living English actre es, born at Coventry; made her début at the early age of eight, appearing as Mamilius in "The Winter's Tale," at the Prince Theatre, then under the management of Charles Kean; during 1864—74 she lived in retirement, but returning to the stage in 1875 achieved her first great succe in the character of Portia; played for some time with the Ban crofts and at the Court Theatre; in December 1878 made her first appearance at the Lyceum Theatre, then under the management of Henry Irving ( q. v .), with whose subsequent succe ful career her own is inseparably a ociated, sharing with him the honours of a long list of memorable Shake spear i an and other performances; b . 1848.