biography
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Scott, Sir Peter (Markham)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1909–89)
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| biography:
| Artist, ornithologist, and broadcaster, born in London, UK, the son of Robert Falcon Scott. An Olympic sportsman (dinghy sailing), he served in the navy in World War 2. He began to exhibit his paintings of bird scenes in 1933, and after the war led several ornithological expeditions (Iceland, 1951, 1953; Australasia and the Pacific, 1956–7). His writing and television programmes helped to popularize natural history, and he received a knighthood in 1973. |
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