Peter Scott - Personal Life

Personal Life

Scott married the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard in 1942. They had a daughter, Nicola, who was born a year later. The marriage was dissolved in 1951.

In 1951, he married an assistant, Philippa Talbot-Ponsonby, while on an expedition to Iceland in search of the breeding grounds of the Pink-footed Goose. A daughter, Dafila, was born later in the same year. (Dafila is the old scientific name for a pintail). She, too, became an artist, painting birds. A son, Falcon was born in 1954.

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