Hough, who promptly replied, "Dogs don't listen to phonographs". Thinking the Edison-Bell Company located in New Jersey, USA, might find it useful, he offered it to James E. In 1898, three years after Nipper's death, Francis Barraud, his last owner and brother of his first owner, painted a picture of Nipper listening intently to a wind-up Edison-Bell cylinder phonograph. On 10 March 2010, a small road near to the dog's final resting place in Kingston upon Thames was officially named Nipper Alley in commemoration of this well-known resident. On the wall of the bank, just inside the entrance, a brass plaque commemorates the terrier that lies beneath the building.
As time progressed, the area was built upon, and a branch of Lloyds Bank now occupies the site. Nipper died of natural causes in 1895 and was buried in Kingston upon Thames at Clarence Street, in a small park surrounded by magnolia trees. When Barraud died in 1887, his brothers Philip and Francis took care of the dog, then Francis took Nipper to Liverpool, and later to Mark's widow in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. Nipper originally lived with his owner, Mark Henry Barraud, in the Prince's Theatre where Barraud was a scenery designer. He was named Nipper because he would often "nip" at the backs of visitors' legs. He was likely a mixed-breed dog, although most early sources suggest that he was a Smooth Fox Terrier, or perhaps a Jack Russell Terrier, or possibly "part Bull Terrier". Nipper was born in 1884 in Bristol, England, and died in September 1895. the Gramophone Co.'s German subsidiary Electrola Zonophone and onetime Victor subsidiary the Japan Victor Company (JVC). (informally known as His Master's Voice) and its successors EMI and HMV Retail Ltd. (later known as RCA Victor and then RCA Records) Zonophone Berliner's (and later Victor's) British affiliate the Gramophone Co. This image was the basis for one of the world's best known trademarks, the famous dog-and- gramophone that was used by several record companies and their associated company brands, including Berliner Gramophone and its various affiliates and successors, including Berliner's German subsidiary Deutsche Grammophon Berliner's American successor the Victor Talking Machine Co. Nipper (1884 – September 1895) was a dog from Bristol, England, who served as the model for an 1898 painting by Francis Barraud titled His Master's Voice.