Edwin Terry was born in Nottingham in 1846.  By 1861, he was an apprentice to his uncle, James Dodworth, a palette knife maker.  Terry stated that he began business in 1864.  In 1868, he was a commission agent in Devonshire Street.  By the 1870s, he was a manufacturer of palette, gilders’, and plumbers’ knives in West Hill Lane, Devonshire Street.  By 1881, he had nine workers.  In about 1889, Terry bought Dodworth’s Reliance Works, Bolsover Street.   His palette and other trade knives were marked ‘OPTIME’ and ‘RELIANCE’ and sold in the UK, the Continent, and increasingly the Colonies.   Edwin Terry died on 26 September 1912, aged 66, at Oakcroft, Ranmoor, and was buried in Ecclesall.  He left 11,337.  His son, Edwin Henry Terry (1872-1928), took control.  Terry’s became a private limited company in 1927, with £3,500 capital (£2,300 in ordinary shares; £1,200 in preference shares).   The firm continued at Bolsover Street under Edwin’s son, James Edwin (1897-1960).  By the 1950s , Terry’s had abandoned cutlery for hand tools.  It was wound up in 1961.