Kathleen Scott
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Lady Edith Agnes Kathleen Scott, Baroness Kennett, FRSBS, (1870 - July 25, 1947) was a British sculptor.
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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.
Family
Born Edith Agnes Kathleen Bruce, she was the youngest of eleven children of Lloyd Stewart Bruce and Jane Bruce.
She married Captain Scott on September 2, 1908, and gave birth to her first son, Peter Markham Scott, in 1909. He became a painter and conservationist. 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.
Titles
When her first husband was posthumously knighted, she became a widow of a Knight Commander, Order of the Bath. When her second husband was created Baron Kennett on July 15 1935, she gained the title Baroness Kennett.
Biographies
- Autobiography (1932)
- A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott, ISBN 0333578384 (1995) - Louisa Young
- A Father for my Son (biographical play, premiered 2000), - Jenny Coverack