Terry Waite
This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (January 2010) Terry Waite Terry Waite at April 1993 Allentown College speech Born Terence Hardy Waite (1939-05-31) 31 May 1939 (age 75) Bollington, Cheshire Nationality British Known for hostage in Lebanon 1987–91 Terence Hardy "Terry" Waite CBE (born 31 May 1939, in Bollington, Cheshire) is an English humanitarian and author, famous as a hostage in Lebanon 1987-91. 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. He is president of the charity Y Care International (the YMCA's international development and relief agency) and patron of AbleChildAfrica and Habitat for Humanity Great Britain. He is also president of Emmaus UK, a charity for formerly homeless people.