Arthur Terry came to Barcelona for the first time in 1949, he taught Hispanic languages and was appointed literature professor at the University of Essex.
He came to Barcelona for the first time in 1949 through a grant in order to study early Catalan monasticism. From 1950 until 1972 he taught Hispanic languages and literatures at the Queen's University Belfast, where he was professor from 1962 until 1973. Then he was appointed literature professor at the University of Essex in 1973. 
