Terence (Terry) Riley (1944-2019), PhD, OBE, was a British deaf rights activist and broadcaster.
Riley was born in Manchester in 1944 to Deaf parents, Mary and Terence (Snr), of Roman Catholic background.
[2] Riley was involved with the British Deaf Association (BDA) for fifty years, serving at various times as a Branch Secretary, Branch Chairman, Area Council Chair, a member of the Executive Council, and for three consecutive terms as Chair of the BDA, from 2008 to 2018.
To the end of his life he lobbied for the legal recognition of British Sign Language in the UK.
[3] As well as campaigning nationally, Riley served as vice-president of the European Union of the Deaf from 1991 to 1994, and as a board member from 2001 to 2005.