| Admin History | Peter Scott [1909-1989] was a painter, ornithologist, broadcaster, author and sportsman. After studying at Cambridge Scott made a living as a painter of wildfowl, producing works such as 'Morning Flight' and 'Wild Chorus'. He won a bronze medal in the 1936 Olympic games for yatching, and won the British gliding championships in 1963. Scott served in the Navy in the Second World War, but was knighted for his conservation work, having established The Severn Wildfowl Trust in 1946, and helped to found the World Wildlife Fund in 1961. He also hosted a BBC television programme, 'Look', for seventeen years. His autobiography, 'The Eye of the Wind', was published in 1961; his final work was 'Travel Diaries of a Naturalist', published in three volumes. |