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Arthur Terrell

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Arthur Bishop Terrell (1861 – 9 June 1931) was a businessman in Melbourne, Australia.

Terrell was born in the Talunga region of South Australia, a son of John Beaton Terrell (c. 1829 – 12 January 1873) and his wife Mary Terrell, née Cave (c. 1831 – 20 October 1894). Mary was a sister of W. R. Cave.

He was educated at North Adelaide Grammar School and as a young man excelled at football, a member of the Norwood club.[1]

He became a member of the Adelaide Stock Exchange on 14 September 1899, but lived in Melbourne from around 1905.[2]

He was in 1905 one of the founders of the Zinc Corporation.[3]

Family

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Terrell married Elizabeth Hall Herring ( – 28 November 1947). They had three surviving children, all of whom left for London aboard SS Osterley with their mother in 1912.[4]

  • Arthur Clive Terrell (28 September 1898 – 20 April 1917) was lieutenant in the British Army; died of wounds at Étaples during WWI
  • Edna Winifred Terrell (May 1904 – ) married Pilot Officer Sir Christopher Albert De Bathe, Bart. (c. 1906 – 6 June 1941) on 12 January 1932. He was killed on active service.[5] He was a nephew of Lily Langtry and her husband Hugo Gerald de Bathe (1871–1940), and grandson of Sir Henry de Bathe, 4th Baronet.
  • John Alwyn Terrell (1907 – )

He had a home at 3 Stanhope Grove, Camberwell, Victoria.

References

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  1. ^ "Football". South Australian Register. Vol. L, no. 11, 964. South Australia. 19 March 1885. p. 3. Retrieved 10 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "Obituary". Advertiser and Register. South Australia. 12 June 1931. p. 17. Retrieved 10 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Broken Hill Tailings". The Age. No. 15, 788. Victoria, Australia. 16 October 1905. p. 7. Retrieved 10 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "The King's School, Canterbury, Roll of Honour". Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  5. ^ "Baronet Killed on Service". The West Australian. Vol. 57, no. 17, 135. Western Australia. 7 June 1941. p. 9. Retrieved 10 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.