His widow Ann writes:
John Scott Waine was born on 15 June 1924 in Sydney to Cecil and Margaret Scott Waine. He was the third child of four, John being the only boy and for his first few years the family lived at Bowral in the Southern Highlands until moving to Warrawee in the northern suburbs of Sydney. He attended Knox Grammar School until 1942, when he left after taking his final exams in which he did very well. During his time at school he very much enjoyed playing rugby and was for two years in the lst Knox XV, which was never defeated. After leaving Knox Grammar in 1942, he joined the RAN as an Able Seaman and went to HMAS Cerberus in Victoria for training, before being posted to New Guinea for the remainder of the war. He returned to Australia in 1946 spending time in Canberra waiting for his discharge from the RAN in order to proceed to England to take up his place at Selwyn in 1946.
In 1949, he came home for leave before departing again for London in 1950 to take up an appointment with a firm of Chartered Accountants, as he was later to join his father’s firm of Scott Waine & Mitchell, where he remained until the death of his father in 1964.
In 1954, he married Elizabeth Latham from New South Wales; they had two children, Julia born in 1955 and Diana Jane in 1960. The marriage was dissolved in 1971 and he remained single until 1983, when he married Ann Dimsdale from Royston, Hertfordshire.
After his father’s death in 1964, he left Scott Waine & Mitchell and started out on his own under the name of John C Scott Waine & Co, Chartered Accountants and continued with his career until finally handing in his green pen at the age of 80+.
John relished his days at Cambridge, and regularly returned over the years to visit the College and the Hawks’ Club. On a couple of occasions he enjoyed entertaining Sir David Harrison, when he was Master, and his wife Sheila, as well as John Sweet, when he was Vice-Master, and his wife Mary, in Sydney; he also very much enjoyed entertaining Selwyn alumni and their offspring.
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His great love of skiing kept him in contact with Cambridge and Oxford friends and the last holiday of his life was taken at Zurs, Austria in January 2010 with his wife – which was where he was happiest apart from at his home and garden in Warrawee. John died at home in Sydney on 14 May 2010, aged 85. N J Selwyn (SE 1965)
Nicholas Selwyn died in November 2010 at the age of 64. He was the great-great grandson of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, in whose memory the College was founded.
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