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naturalist, artist, and explorer, founder of the Wildfowl Trust at Slimbridge,
Gloucestershire, England, 1946, and a founder of the World Wildlife Fund
(now World Wide Fund for Nature). He was the son of Antarctic explorer R F Scott; he studied at Cambridge, in Germany, and at the Royal Academy School, London. In 1936 he represented Britain in the Olympic Games, gaining a bronze medal for the single-handed sailing event. During World War II he served with the Royal Navy. In 1949 he led his first expedition, which was to explore the uncharted Perry River area in the Canadian Arctic. Scott also led ornithological expeditions to Iceland, Australasia, the Galápagos Islands, the Seychelles, and the Antarctic. He was the first president of the World Wildlife Fund 1961-67. Scott's paintings were usually either portraits or bird studies. He published many books on birds, including Key to the Wild Fowl of the World 1949 and Wild Geese and Eskimos 1951, and an autobiography 1961, The Eye of the Wind. |