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Apr 7, 2010 · RAF MILDENHALL, England – Capt. Scott Wilcox, 48th Civil Engineer Squadron, attends a memorial service for his wife, Capt. Jenna Wilcox, 100th Civil Engineer Squadron, who died April 1 from injuries sustained in a vehicle-related accident in Scotland March 27.
RAF MILDENHALL, England – Peter Sielski, Capt. Jenna Wilcox’s father, hugs his son-in-law during a memorial service for the captain, who died April 1 from injuries sustained in a vehicle-related accident March 27. Capt. Scott Wilcox and his wife were...
Scott was born in London at 174, Buckingham Palace Road, the only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his wife, Kathleen (née Edith Agnes Kathleen Bruce), a sculptor. He was only two years old when his father died.
- Sir Peter was named after Peter Pan, the character created by his godfather J M Barrie.J M Barrie’s christening gift to Peter was life membership of London Zoological Society.
- He was the only child of one of the world’s most famous explorers, Scott of the Antarctic, who in his last letter home before he died on his ill-fated mission to the South Pole, urged his wife to: “Make the boy interested in natural history”.
- He was an accomplished sportsman, winning a bronze medal at the 1936 Olympic Games for sailing, becoming the British gliding champion in 1963 and a national championship standard ice-skater.
- He was a co-founder and first chairman of the World Wide Fund for Nature and was responsible for creating WWF’s famous panda logo, as well as the WWT swan logo.
Sep 14, 2009 · Wildlife presenter Chris Packham said: "I made a film about Sir Peter Scott. I went to see him and his wife Phillippa and they were so hospitable. They didn't care if I had blue hair. Then out of the blue I was invited to one of his birthday parties.
May 27, 2024 · Peter Scott (1909–89) was only two when his father perished in Antarctica in 1912, but that small boy grew up to engender a worldwide conservation movement, as well as being a writer (he was first published by Country Life) and artist of note.
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In 1993 came Elspeth Huxley’s biography, Peter Scott, Painter and Naturalist, now out of print, and now we have this new one, linking him with the founding of ‘modern conservation’ (nature conservation, that is).
