H. A. Maxwell Whyte (1908–1988) was born in England, completed his education at Dulwich College in London, and then entered the business world as a representative of the Anglo-American Oil Company. After his conversion in 1939 and serving in the British RAF during World War II, Whyte emigrated to Canada with his family to become the full-time pastor of a small church in Toronto. In the forty-plus years of his pastoral career, Whyte ministered in dozens of countries on five continents and authored eighteen booklets dealing with the workings of God in the contemporary charismatic outpourings of the Spirit.