It is with great sadness that we announce that Kearsney College’s fifth Headmaster, Mr Colin Waddington Silcock, passed away peacefully on Friday, 18 February 2022.
Mr Silcock served at the helm of Kearsney College for 15 years; from 1976 to 1990
In the words of Mr Robin Lamplough (past teacher, 1967 โ 2003) quoted from the Centenary publication titled โKearsney Chronicledโ:
โ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ค๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐บ๐ด๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ข๐ญ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ, ๐ฆ๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต, ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ท๐ฆ, ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด, ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ด๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ข๐ญ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐บ๐ด๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ. ๐๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ต๐บ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ค๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐น๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ฃ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด – ๐ข๐ด ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง-๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ค๐ช๐ฑ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข๐ป๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐จ๐บ, ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ข๐ญ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ญ๐บ ๐ท๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ, ๐ด๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ข๐ช๐ญ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ.โ
Kearsney College Old Boys send their deepest sympathies to his wife, Charmian, as well as the extended Silcock family.
