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Peter Scott

1909 - 1989

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Sir Peter Markham Scott (14 September 1909 – 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, he took an interest in observing and shooting wildfowl at a young age and later took to their breeding. He established the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge in 1946 and helped found the World Wide Fund for Nature, the logo of which he designed. He was a yachting enthusiast from an early age and took up gliding in mid-life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Scott is the 1,783rd most popular painter (up from 1,802nd in 2019), the 4,021st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,827th in 2019) and the 84th most popular British Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Peter Scott ranks 1,783 out of 2,023. Before him are Cornelis Ketel, Marie Bouliard, Lemuel Francis Abbott, Peter Perez Burdett, Mikhail Matyushin, and Helena Almeida. After him are Viktor Madarász, Ulrika Pasch, Ben Nicholson, Ion Andreescu, John Frederick Kensett, and Katherine Sophie Dreier.

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Among people born in 1909, Peter Scott ranks 307. Before him are Xie Fuzhi, Godfrey Rampling, Karel Burkert, Ernesto Belis, Michael Rennie, and Guillermo Eizaguirre. After him are José María Minella, Marianne Hoppe, Luigi Marchisio, Robert Douglas, Stephen Spender, and Valerio Perentin. Among people deceased in 1989, Peter Scott ranks 230. Before him are Ödön Zombori, Yannis Tsarouchis, Harald Edelstam, Gilles Andriamahazo, George Robledo, and Rostislav Plyatt. After him are Cláudio Santoro, Gilda Radner, Aleksanteri Saarvala, Oleksiy Fedorov, Friederich Franzl, and Lee Calhoun.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Scott ranks 4,022 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), Alan Woods (1944), Charlie Whiting (1952), Tony Benn (1925), William Townsend Aiton (1766), and Ian McNeice (1950). After him are G. M. Trevelyan (1876), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), Edward John Eyre (1815), Robert H. McNaught (1956), James Donald (1917), and Jane Ellen Harrison (1850).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Peter Scott ranks 84. Before him are Marie Spartali Stillman (1844), Henry Scott Tuke (1858), William Dobson (1610), Frederick Sandys (1829), Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760), and Peter Perez Burdett (1734). After him are Ben Nicholson (1894), Tracey Emin (1963), Roger Dean (1944), Paul Sandby (1725), Helen Allingham (1848), and L. S. Lowry (1887).

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