Sculptor, draughtsman and teacher, born in Southampton, younger brother of the actor Austin Trevor, from a musical family and deeply interested in music. Schilsky was a figurative sculptor whose work had a strong spiritual quality. He was educated at Haberdashers’ Aske’s School and then college in Geneva, initially studying art at École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. His sculpture studies at the Slade School of Fine Art, under Havard Thomas, 1914–17 and 1918–19, were interrupted by World War I service abroad in the Gloucester Yeomanry. Schilsky joined the staff of Westminster School of Art around 1932; moved to the Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1939; worked for the government’s Directorate of Camouflage, 1940–5; then was head of sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art, 1945–69.