Background
Colin was born in Rajahmundry, India to Crawford and Marjorie Tilsley, missionaries in the Godavari district of South India, where Crawford was a fourth generation missionary.
Colin was born in Rajahmundry, India to Crawford and Marjorie Tilsley, missionaries in the Godavari district of South India, where Crawford was a fourth generation missionary.
They had four children. They studied at Emmaus Bible School, Sydney, Australia, from 1960, and after graduating in 1961, Colin began work for them as Correspondence School Manager. He founded Gospel Literature Outreach in June 1965, and continued working for both organisations until prevented from doing so by increasing disability from total motor neurone disease.
He died in 1981 in Sydney.