Philippa Scott

• Name — Philippa Scott • Born — 22 November 1918 • Birthplace — Bloemfontein, South Africa • Died — 5 January 2010 • Place of death — Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, England • Known for — Bletchley Park Director of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust • Children — 2

Born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, Scott moved to England, and worked in the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park during World War II. In 1951, she married Peter Scott, naturalist and founder of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT), in Reykjavík, Iceland, after an expedition to ring pink-footed geese. A daughter, Dafila, was born later that year (dafila is the old scientific name for a pintail). A son, Falcon, was born in 1954. Lady Scott died, aged 91, in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire.

Scott was honorary director of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, founded in 1948 by Sir Peter. She had a keen interest in nature and the environment and wrote numerous books about her travels from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Scott was also a professional wildlife photographer, president of the Nature in Art Trust, scuba diver and an associate of the Royal Photographic Society.

• "The Scott partnership put conservation on the map, at a time when conservation was not a word that most people understood." – Sir David Attenborough

Her recorded language was English. She was the child of Frederick William Talbot-Ponsonby and Hannah Findlay. She married Peter Scott. 2 children are recorded: Dafila Kathleen Scott and Richard Falcon Scott. Recorded as a citizen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Recorded with the occupation conservationist.