FORMER Lymm resident Terry Waite is the new president of Chester Music Society.
He succeeds Professor Sir Bernard Lovell, who died in August after 41 years as the society’s president.
Mr Waite, who is already patron of Warrington Male Voice Choir, was educated at Stockton Heath Secondary School, where he was head boy. He went on to higher education in London and later was appointed as an adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury, travelling the world and negotiating the release of several hostages in Iran.
But in 1987 he was himself taken hostage and held in Beirut for almost five years, four of which were in solitary confinement.
Chester Music Society chairman David Woods said: “We are greatly honoured to have Terry Waite as our new president. We look forward to a close and fruitful working relationship in the years to come.”
Former hostage is new Music Society President
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