1. Edward Lionel Terry was an English white supremacist and murderer, incarcerated in psychiatric institutions after murdering a Chinese immigrant, Joe Kum Yung, in Wellington, New Zealand in 1905.
16 Facts About Lionel Terry
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Edward Lionel Terry was born in Sandwich, Kent in 1873.
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Lionel Terry was the son of Edward Terry and Frances Terry.
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Lionel Terry's father was a prosperous corn merchant in Kent, and later managed Pall Mall Real Estate.
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Lionel Terry worked initially for the West Indies Gold Mining Corporation in London and joined the Royal Regiment Artillery in 1892.
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Lionel Terry travelled to the West Indies and climbed Mount Pelee in Martinique before it erupted, and spent weeks exploring the interior of Dominica, producing the first map of it.
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Lionel Terry served in a mounted police brigade in Bulawayo, Rhodesia, fighting against the Matabele in the Second Matabele War, taking part in fifteen engagements and being wounded twice.
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Lionel Terry took part in the ill-fated Jameson Raid, on 29 December 1895.
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Lionel Terry was upset by the mine owners of South Africa importing Chinese coolies to work for low wages ahead of Caucasians.
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Lionel Terry was strongly in favour of the white working class of the British Empire and believed the British government, capitalists and Jewish financiers were destroying the Empire's future by using the working class like slaves, and hiring non-white labour.
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In New Zealand, Lionel Terry first worked for the Department of Lands and Survey in Auckland, before he tried to establish a horticultural market garden north of there.
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Lionel Terry wrote letters and poems to various publications espousing his views on labour, capitalism, the empire and race.
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Lionel Terry wrote and privately published The Shadow while in New Zealand.
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On 24 September 1905, Lionel Terry shot Joe Kum Yung, a Chinese immigrant, in Haining Street, Wellington.
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Lionel Terry selected Yung as his victim due to this infirmity.
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Lionel Terry has received a capsule biography in the online Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, and a further section in the recently published Wild Cards: Eccentric Characters From New Zealand's Past.