Peter Scott was a yachting enthusiast from an early age and took up gliding in mid-life.
29 Facts About Peter Scott
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Peter Scott was part of the UK team for the 1936 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in sailing.
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Peter Scott was born in London at 174, Buckingham Palace Road, the only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Peter Scott and sculptor Kathleen Bruce.
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Peter Scott was only two years old when his father died.
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Peter Scott was educated at Oundle School and Trinity College, Cambridge, initially reading Natural Sciences but graduating in the History of Art in 1931.
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Peter Scott studied art at the State Academy in Munich for a year followed by studies at the Royal Academy Schools, London.
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Peter Scott represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at sailing at the 1936 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the O-Jolle monotype class.
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Peter Scott participated in the Prince of Wales Cup in 1938 during which he and his crew on the Thunder and Lightning dinghy designed a modified wearable harness that helped them win.
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Peter Scott is credited with designing the Western Approaches ship camouflage scheme, which disguised the look of ship superstructure.
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Peter Scott stood as a Conservative in the 1945 general election in Wembley North and narrowly failed to be elected.
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Peter Scott wrote and illustrated several books on the subject, including his autobiography, The Eye of the Wind.
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Peter Scott took up gliding in 1956 and became a British champion in 1963.
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Peter Scott was responsible for involving Prince Philip in gliding.
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Peter Scott was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1956 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith, London.
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Peter Scott was the founder President of the Society of Wildlife Artists and President of the Nature in Art Trust.
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From 1973 to 1983, Peter Scott was Chancellor of the University of Birmingham.
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Peter Scott continued with his love of sailing, skippering the 12-metre yacht Sovereign in the 1964 challenge for the America's Cup which was held by the United States.
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Peter Scott was one of the founders of the World Wide Fund for Nature, and designed its panda logo.
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Peter Scott's pioneering work in conservation contributed greatly to the shift in policy of the International Whaling Commission and signing of the Antarctic Treaty, the latter inspired by his visit to his father's base on Ross Island in Antarctica.
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Peter Scott died of a heart attack on 29 August 1989 in Bristol, two weeks before his 80th birthday.
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Peter Scott narrated Wild Wings, a 1966 British short documentary film, produced by British Transport Films.
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In 1975 Peter Scott proposed the scientific name Nessiteras rhombopteryx for the Loch Ness Monster so that it could be registered as an endangered species.
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Peter Scott married the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard in 1942 and had a daughter, Nicola, born a year later.
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In 1951, Peter Scott married his assistant, Philippa Talbot-Ponsonby, while on an expedition to Iceland in search of the breeding grounds of the pink-footed goose.
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On 8 July 1941, it was announced that Peter Scott had been mentioned in despatches "for good services in rescuing survivors from a burning Vessel" while serving on HMS Broke.
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Peter Scott was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1942 Birthday Honours.
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Peter Scott was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1953 Coronation Honours.
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Peter Scott was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on 27 February 1973.
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The Peter Scott Walk passes the mouth of the River Nene and follows the old sea bank along The Wash, from Scott's lighthouse near Sutton Bridge in Lincolnshire to the ferry crossing at King's Lynn.