| Philippa Scott | |
| Birth Name: | Felicity Philippa Talbot-Ponsonby |
| Birth Date: | 22 November 1918 |
| Birth Place: | Bloemfontein, South Africa |
| Death Place: | Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Known For: | Bletchley Park Director of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust |
| Children: | 2 |
Felicity Philippa, Lady Scott (Talbot-Ponsonby;[1] 22 November 1918 – 5 January 2010) was a British wildlife conservationist.
Born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, Scott later moved to England, and worked in the code school at Bletchley Park during World War II.[2] She married Sir Peter Scott, naturalist and founder of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT), in Reykjavík, Iceland, in 1951 after an expedition to ring pink-footed geese.[3] She died, aged 91, in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire.[4]
Scott was Honorary Director of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, founded in 1948 by Sir Peter. She had a keen interest in nature and the environment and wrote numerous books about her travels from the Arctic to the Antarctic.[5]
Scott was also professional wildlife photographer, President of the Nature in Art Trust,[6] scuba diver [7] and an associate of the Royal Photographic Society.
Scotts' wrasse, Cirrhilabrus scottorum was named after Scott and her husband for their “great contribution in nature conservation".[8]
Scott agreed to sit for a portrait head in clay by Jon Edgar at her home in Slimbridge in February 2007 as part of the sculptor's environmental series[10] of heads. A bronze was unveiled at the Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust visitor centre on 6 December 2011.