Kathleen Scott

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Edith Agnes Kathleen Scott, Baroness Kennet, FRSBS, (March 27, 1878 - July 25, 1947) was a British sculptor.

1 Works
2 Family
3 Titles
4 Biographies

[edit] Works

Three of Scott's busts feature in the National Portrait Gallery's collection, and she is also the subject of thirteen photograpic portraits there. She sculpted at least two statues of her first husband, Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, after his death. One of these is located in Christchurch, New Zealand and the other in Waterloo Place, London. She also sculpted a statue of Edward Smith, captain of the Titanic, after his death. This is situated in Lichfield, England.

[edit] Family

Born Edith Agnes Kathleen Bruce, she was the youngest of eleven children of Lloyd Stewart Bruce and Jane Bruce.

She married the antarctic explorer Captain Robert Scott on September 2, 1908, and gave birth to her first son, Peter Markham Scott, in 1909. who became famous in broadcasting, ornithology, painting, conservation and sport. After her first husband's death in 1912, she married the politician Edward Hilton Young in 1922. Her second son, Wayland Hilton Young, was born on August 2, 1923. He is a writer and politician.

[edit] Titles

In 1913 she was granted the rank (but not the style) of a widow of a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. This meant that for the purposes of establishing official precedence, she was treated as if she were the widow of such a knight. However she was not entitled to be called Lady Scott merely by virtue of this, and it did not amount to Captain Scott being posthumously knighted.

When her second husband was created Baron Kennet on July 15, 1935, she gained the title Baroness Kennet.

[edit] Biographies

Autobiography (1932)
A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott, ISBN 0-333-57838-4 (1995) - Louisa Young
A Father for my Son (biographical play, premiered 2000), - Jenny Coverack