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6 unusual facts about Peter Scott


British Transport Films

The unit won many awards over the years, including an Academy Award in 1966 for the film Wild Wings, which had little to do with transport and concentrated on WWT Slimbridge in Gloucestershire, founded by Peter Scott.

Paul Johnsgard

His Ph.D. work was on the phylogeny of six ducks, after which he moved to England at the Wildfowl Trust at Gloucestershire founded by Sir Peter Scott.

Peter Scot

Another factor in choosing the name was due to the British explorer, Captain Scott, and his son Peter Scott.

Peter Scott-Morgan

There are specific accounts of its early use at BP's Wytch Farm oilfield.

Raymond Ching

On returning to the UK, Sir William took some of Ching's work to his friend, Sir Peter Scott, who then telegraphed Ching inviting him to call on him at Slimbridge.

The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk

The character Rhayader is loosely based on ornithologist, conservationist and painter Peter Scott, who also did the illustrations for the first illustrated English edition of the book, using his first wife Elizabeth Jane Howard as the model for Fritha.


Captive breeding

The idea was popularized among modern conservationists independently by Peter Scott and Gerald Durrell in the 1950s and 1960s, founders of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and Jersey Zoo, who demonstrated success with a wide variety of life forms in the 1970s ranging from birds (e.g. Pink Pigeon), mammals (e.g. Pygmy Hog), reptiles (e.g. Round Island Boa) and amphibians (e.g. Poison arrow frogs).

Dinghy sailing

Trapezing during a race first appeared in 1934, on the Amazon A Class Rater Vagabond sailed by Peter Scott (son of the famous Scott of the Antarctic), and John Winter.

L. Hugh Newman

With Peter Scott and James Fisher, he was a resident member of the team who presented "Nature Parliament" on BBC radio's Children's Hour in the 1950s.

The Private Life of the Kingfisher

Depicting a pair of Common Kingfisher at their underground nest on the River Test in Hampshire, England, it was filmed and directed by Ronald and Rosemary Eastman (Ron doing the photography and Rosemary the sound), written and produced by Jeffery Boswall, and narrated by Peter Scott.


see also

Aidsmap

Aidsmap was founded in 1987 by Peter Scott, who was then working for the London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard.

Superior Software

Major software developers Peter Johnson, Tim Tyler, Martin Edmondson, Nicholas Chamberlain, Kevin Edwards, David Hoskins, Matthew Atkinson, Chris Roberts, Tony Oakden, Peter Scott, Gary Partis, Peter Irvin, Jeremy Smith, David Braben, Ian Bell, Geoff Crammond, Jonathan Griffiths and Nick Pelling have all produced software published by Superior, sometimes released under the joint Superior Software / Acornsoft brandname.

Synovate Business Consulting

AMI was subsequently acquired by Aegis Group a media and market research group founded by Peter Scott in 1989 as a separate company based the original WCRS Group media buying division which itself was centred around the French media business Carat.