William Walter Terry (1863-1950) was born at Slough, Berkshire, the son of Mark Terry (a china and glass dealer) and his wife, Mary. 

William became an apprentice lamp manufacturer; and then a whitesmith in copper and tinplate. By 1911, he had opened an ironmongery shop at 116 High Street, Slough, where he resided with his family. Thomas William Terry (1895-1982) – his son, by his wife Alice Georgina née Abbott – was already working in the shop. The Terrys traded at High Street though the interwar period, selling ironmongery (such as garden implements) and stainless cutlery. In the Register (Census) 1939, William Walter was enumerated as an ‘ironmonger (retired)’; Thomas William as an ‘ironmonger shop keeper’. It is not known when Terry’s ceased trading, but it was apparently still operating in the 1950s.

William Walter Terry, of The Southleigh Hotel, Brighton, died on 6 September 1950. He left £3,789.  Thomas William, of Elmwood Close, Retford, Nottinghamshire, died on 28 December 1982. His estate was valued at £57,235. Slough Library (Reg Harrison Collection) has a photograph of the Terry shop frontage.