1878 - 1947

(née Bruce, and later became Lady Hilton Young and Lady Kennet) Sculptor. She was the daughter of an Anglican clergyman, orphaned at the age of seven. From 1900 to 1902 she was registered at the Slade School of Art, London, where she took up sculpture. In 1901 she saw and admired works by Auguste Rodin at the Glasgow International Exhibition. Between 1902 and 1906 she lived a bohemian life in Paris, attending the Académie Colarossi, and becoming acquainted with Rodin, who was impressed by her skills as a modeller. She exhibited every year between 1905 and 1909 at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts alongside some of the more advanced sculptors of the day. On her return to London, her beauty and artistic talent were a passport into literary society. In 1908 she married Captain Robert Falcon Scott. 1912, the year in which her first public statue, the bronze of Charles Rolls, was inaugurated at Dover, was also the year in which her husband perished on his second Antarctic expedition. The full-length bronze statue of Captain Scott, which his widow sculpted shortly after his death, was unveiled in Waterloo Place, London in 1915, and replicated in marble (1916--17) for Christchurch, New Zealand. Kathleen Scott sculpted several First World War memorials and many portrait busts. Her company was sought by writers, artists and prominent politicians, some of whom were also her sitters.