Colin Terry
{{Short description|Royal Air Force officer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}}
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Air Marshal Sir Colin George Terry, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|sep=,|KBE|CB|DL|FREng}} (8 August 1943 – 9 February 2025) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.
RAF career
Educated at Imperial College London, Terry joined the Royal Air Force in 1965.[http://www.imperial.ac.uk/college.asp?P=6989 Biography] Imperial College, London He went on to be Director-General of Support Management in 1993,Whitaker's Almanack 1994 Chief of Staff at Logistics Command in 1995Whitaker's Almanack 1996 and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Logistics Command in 1997 before retiring in 1999.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Royal%20Air%20Force%20Senior%20Appointments.pdf|title=Royal Air Force Senior Appointments}} He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1995 Birthday Honours.{{London Gazette|issue= 54066|page=3|supp=y|date= 16 June 1995}}
Later life and career
In retirement Terry became President of the Council of the Royal Aeronautical Society and Chairman of the Engineering Council. He also became Chairman of Meggitt and deputy lieutenant of Buckinghamshire.[https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/officerProfile?symbol=MGGT.L&officerId=400000 Meggitt plc] Reuters He was also appointed a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2001.{{cite web|title=List of Fellows|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|access-date=24 October 2014|archive-date=8 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608094405/http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|url-status=dead}}
Terry was chairman of Centronic, a nuclear industry engineering company, between July 2016 and July 2018.{{cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/z-3FG_wOdYvTFKujClvXo03QGVM/appointments|title=Colin George Terry – Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)|work=Companies House|accessdate=8 April 2019}}
Terry was appointed Chairman of BOXARR, a software business, in 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.adsadvance.co.uk/sir-colin-terry-becomes-boxarr-chairman.html|title=Sir Colin Terry becomes BOXARR Chairman|date=10 February 2017|publisher=ADSAdvance|accessdate=17 October 2017}}
Terry died on 9 February 2025.{{Cite web|url=https://www.engc.org.uk/news/press-releases/2025/obituary-sir-colin-terry-kbe-cb-dl-freng-1943-2025/|title=Engineering Council|website=www.engc.org.uk}}
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Category:Alumni of Imperial College London
Category:Royal Air Force air marshals
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire