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The couple married in 1891 and <i>Sweet Nell</i> was the first of several romantic-historical dramas with which they became indelibly associated. Although they toured extensively, they also had annual six-month seasons from 1905 until 1913 at the New Theatre, and they successfully revived <i>Sweet Nell</i> at the Strand Theatre in 1915. Fred Terry's great-nephew Sir John Gielgud once recalled that Terry and Neilson ‘took the theatre dreadfully seriously. This made them extremely good in rubbish. They performed in very fustian plays’.\r\n\r\nParrott & Company was established  by Arthur William Parrott and his brother Charles Henry Parrott in about 1921 in the Albert Street Pottery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.  It was amalgamated with Burgess and Leigh at the beginning  of World War Two. 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