Richard Terry (bridge Builder)
Richard Terry may refer to: *Ben Terry (Richard Benjamin Terry, fl. 1877–1881), Test cricket umpire *Sir Richard Terry (musicologist) (1864–1938), English organist, choir director and musicologist *Richard Terry, chef de cuisine of the Oriental Club, author of ''Indian Cookery'' (1861) *Rick Terry Richard Ross Terry, Jr. (born April 5, 1974) is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played from 1997 to 1999 for the New York Jets and the Carolina Panthers. He played college football at the ...

Ben Terry
Richard Benjamin Terry (25 November 1852 – 10 July 1910) was an Englishman who umpired the historic first Test match played between Australia and England in Melbourne on 15 to 19 March 1877. His colleague was Curtis Reid. He also umpired in the second Test match, played two weeks later in Melbourne, partnered by Sam Cosstick. Life and career Ben Terry came from Nottingham, and was engaged by the Melbourne Cricket Club as a professional bowler in 1875, having been recommended by Robert Allan Fitzgerald, the secretary of Marylebone Cricket Club, and Richard Daft of Nottinghamshire. He arrived in Melbourne in January 1876, bringing more than 200 cricket bats to sell. In 1876-77, when he umpired the first two Tests at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as part of his duties, his annual salary was 150 pounds; although his match performances for Melbourne were disappointing, he was highly regarded as a practice bowler. He remained as one of the club's professionals until after the 188 ...
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Richard Terry (musicologist)
Sir Richard Runciman Terry (3 January 1864 – 18 April 1938) was an English organist, choir director and musicologist. He is noted for his pioneering revival of Tudor liturgical music. Early years Richard Terry was born in 1864 in Ellington, Northumberland. At the age of 11 he started playing the organ at the local church. Educated at various schools in South Shields, St Albans and London. In 1881 Terry was living in Jarrow and working as a Pupil Teacher. Terry then spent seventeen months as a non-collegiate person at Oxford (October 1887 to May 1889) and two years at Cambridge (1888–90), where he went as a non-collegiate student but became a choral scholar at King's College, Cambridge. There he also became a music critic for ''The Cambridge Review''. At Cambridge, he was much influenced by the Professor of Music, Charles Villiers Stanford and the King's Chapel organist Arthur Henry Mann who taught him the techniques of choral singing and the training of boys' voices. Caree ...
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Oriental Club
The Oriental Club in London is an exclusive Private Members’ Club established in 1824 Charles Graves describes it as fine in quality as White's but with the space of infinitely larger clubs. It is located in Stratford Place, near Oxford Street and Bond Street. Foundation ''The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany'' reported in its April 1824, issue:The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany for April 1824, p. 473
online at books.google.com (accessed 28 January 2008) The founders included the Duke of Wellington and General Sir John Malcolm,
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