Garnett Terry

Garnett Terry was an engraver, bookseller and jeweller at 29 Paternoster Row (1770); 62 Paternoster Row (1777); 54 Paternoster Row (1780-95); 20 City Road (1797-98).  He engraved maps for road books and topographical items from 1776 to 1789, as well as portraits in mezzotine, especially for actors and actresses.  He was a member of St. Martin’s Lane Academy.    He was listed as a “jeweller” in the London directories at this time. Terry also served as engraver to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. He built at his own expense a meeting house in Curtain Road, Shoreditch, where he preached for several years without any emolument, and as a token of his regard bequethed £6000 to be equally divided amongst the members of the church belonging to that place. Terry died in 1817, aged 73. He was for several years a member of one of Huntington’s congregations and printed a number of his works before they had a falling out.  The Mrs. Terry mentioned in some pamphlets in conjunction with Maria de Fleury is most likely his wife. See Ian Maxted, The London Book Trades 1775-1800: A Preliminary Checklist of Members (Kent: William Dawson, 1977), 223;  Universal British Directory (1791-98), vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 308; J. A. Jones, ed., Bunhill Memorials, Sacred Reminiscences of Three Hundred Ministers and Other Persons of Note, who are Buried in Bunhill Fields (London: J. Paul, 1849), 275.