Mark Scott

Scott was educated at Bryanston School. Aged 18, he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II. While on active service in Sicily, he was wounded in a mortar bomb explosion, during which he lost one eye and his other eye was damaged by shrapnel. He was in hospital recuperating for almost a year in North Africa. In 1946 when he was demobilised, he joined North London Polytechnic, studying architecture. He also joined the Thames Rowing Club. He rowed in the 1948 Henley Regatta and then for Britain at the 1948 Summer Olympics, in the coxed pairs event, with Bakie James. Mark Bodley Scott was involved in local government, including Sonning Parish Council and Wokingham Rural District Council. He was also chair of Sonning Working Men’s Club. In 1953, Scott married Josephine Clare Stanley, also an architect, and they had three children. In 2006, they moved from Sonning-on-Thames, where they had lived for 53 years, to Henley-on-Thames, where Mark Bodley Scott died. A voice recording can be heard at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames.

• Born — 17 April 1923 • Birthplace — Christchurch, Hampshire, England • Died — 11 February 2013 • Place of death — Henley-on-Thames, England • Education — Bryanston School • Alma Mater — North London Polytechnic • Occupation — Architect • Known for — 1948 Summer Olympics rower

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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. It is also recorded that mark Scott is recorded with the occupation rower. Recorded with the occupation architect. Recorded with the gender male. The register further records that mark Scott is recorded as a citizen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Born on 17 April 1923. Institutional cataloguing adds that mark Scott died on 11 February 2013.