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Dennis Silk (Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk) was born on 8 October, 1931 in Eureka, California, United States, is an English cricketer and educator (1931–2019). Discover Dennis Silk's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

Popular As Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk
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Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 8 October 1931
Birthday 8 October
Birthplace Eureka, California, United States
Date of death 19 June, 2019
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Nationality United States

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1931

Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk (8 October 1931 – 19 June 2019 ) was an English first-class cricketer and a public school headmaster.

He was a close friend of the poet Siegfried Sassoon, of whom he spoke and wrote extensively.

1950

During the early 1950s, Silk was introduced to the cricket-loving poet Siegfried Sassoon by a mutual acquaintance, Edmund Blunden.

1953

A useful opener or middle-order batsman, he scored centuries in matches against Oxford University in 1953 and 1954, and captained Cambridge University in 1955.

He went on to play first-class cricket for Somerset as an amateur during the school summer holidays, but gave priority to his teaching career.

His highest first-class score was 126 for Cambridge University against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1953.

1957

Silk toured East Africa with the MCC in 1957–58 and captained the MCC on tours to South America in 1958–59 and to the US and Canada in 1959 and 1967, although none included first-class matches.

1959

However, on the MCC tour of South America in 1959 he took nine wickets at an average of only 2.11, as well as scoring 457 runs at an average of 76.16.

He later wrote two instruction books on playing cricket.

1960

He also captained a strong MCC team on a tour of New Zealand in 1960–61, which included 10 first-class matches, three of them against the full-strength New Zealand team.

After the New Zealand tour he retired from first-class cricket at the age of 29.

Silk seldom bowled his leg-breaks, and his single first-class wicket came in his second-to-last match, when he bowled Gerry Alexander in the MCC match against the Governor-General's XI in Auckland.

1963

Silk married Diana Milton in Pitminster Church in Somerset in 1963.

They had four children.

They moved back to Somerset after his retirement settling in Stoke St Gregory.

Dennis Silk's death was marked by a Service of Thanksgiving held in Southwark Cathedral; 1,200 people attended, with representatives from Radley, Marlborough and the MCC.

His wife Diana died on 19 January 2024, aged 88.

1967

Until Sassoon's death in 1967, Silk was one of his closest friends, and made several unique recordings of the poet reading his own work at Sassoon's home in Heytesbury, Wiltshire.

These formed the basis of a BBC Radio 4 programme on the subject: Siegfried Sassoon: a Friend.

1968

Having taught at Marlborough College, Silk moved on to Radley College, where he was Warden (headmaster) from 1968 to 1991.

1975

Eric Anderson, who headed Shrewsbury (1975–1980) and Eton (1980–1994), regarded Silk as the best headmaster of his generation in England, for transforming Radley from what Anderson described as "a pretty ordinary place" to one of England's best public schools.

Several of Silk's eminent past pupils have written about him in their memoirs, including Sir Andrew Motion, who said of Silk that he "made the school more like a family".

Oliver Popplewell wrote that his sons Nigel and Andrew "thrived" at Radley under Silk.

When Silk retired from Radley, he preferred not to accept any retirement gifts for himself, but instead established the Dennis Silk Fund to support the education of talented boys, whose parents might otherwise have struggled to pay the school's fees.

1980

In this role he appeared prominently in the 1980 BBC documentary series, Public School.

1990

In the 1990s he chaired the Test and County Cricket Board.

Silk was born in Eureka, California.

His father was a medical missionary on a Native American reservation in the Sierra Nevada desert.

Silk's mother, who was Spanish, died when he was five, and the family returned to Britain.

Silk was educated at Christ's Hospital and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he gained an MA in history and represented Cambridge University at cricket and at rugby.

1994

Silk chaired the Test and County Cricket Board from 1994 to 1996 and also served as President of the MCC.

1995

He was made a CBE in the 1995 New Year's Honours List for services to cricket and education.

2000

He was an honorary life vice-president of the MCC from 2000 onwards.

2006

The correspondence file relating to the Silk portrait bust is held as part of the Thornhill Papers (2006:56) in the archive of the Henry Moore Foundation's Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, while the terracotta remains in the collection of the artist.

2009

In 2009, Silk became president for life of the Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship.

2014

In 2014, Silk and his wife, Diana (who also knew Siegfried Sassoon well), appeared on the BBC programme Countryfile in a feature on Sassoon's residence at Heytesbury.

The cricket writer David Foot likened Silk to Sassoon, describing him as "a gentle, rounded, civilised man, a scholar without ostentation, literate, a lover of poetry and someone with a similar sense of quiet fun".

Dennis Silk sat for the sculptor and former Radley College pupil Alan Thornhill, for a portrait in clay.

2018

As of 2018, 31 boys had benefited from the fund.