Terry Waite

Sir
Terry Waite
KCMG CBE
Waite in September 2016
Born
Terence Hardy Waite

(1939-05-31) 31 May 1939 (age 85)
Bollington, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
Occupations
  • Humanitarian
  • Author
  • Negotiator
Organisations

Sir Terence Hardy Waite KCMG CBE (born 31 May 1939[1]) is an English human rights activist and author.

Waite was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of four hostages, including the journalist John McCarthy. He was himself kidnapped and held captive from 1987 to 1991.[2]

After his release he wrote Taken on Trust (1994), a memoir about his experiences, and became involved in humanitarian causes and charitable work.

  1. ^ "Hostage Waite Gets Belated Birthday Wish". Los Angeles Times. 9 June 1989. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2015. Friends and colleagues of Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite on Thursday sent him a belated birthday wish published in the independent newspaper An Nahar. Waite, who was kidnapped in Lebanon two and a half years ago, spent his 50th birthday on May 31 in captivity
  2. ^ "Kidnapped Waite returns to Beirut". BBC News. 9 December 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2020.