BERNARD  ‘Duck’  A  CASTLE

Bernard Castle was born on November 19 1898, was at Kent College from 1910 -1915, and died on December 28 1970, having contributed multifariously for over 60 years to the school and it’s reputation in the outside world.

At school he was not only Head Prefect but also captain of football, hockey, cricket and fives.  Later he became President of the Old Canterburians Club as well as the first OC to become a Governor, where his knowledge and wisdom were invaluable.

In the First World War he gained the Legion of Honour whilst commissioned in the

RNAS ; after being wounded, he transferred to the RNVR to become Commander.

While an accomplished club cricketer and a Vice-President of the Council of the Club Cricket Conference, it was in hockey he gained his greatest distinctions - playing for Sussex more than 100 times, captaining the South of England and once playing for Great Britain as well as becoming an umpire and selector.  He played for the first

OC XI at the Folkestone Festival in 1936.

Music and the organ were his hobbies – it was fitting that he was the first to play on the 1946 memorial organ whose purchase he had done much to encourage.