LADY SCOTT.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 18 April 1922, Page 1

LADY SCOTT.

The cablegrams a few days ago recorded the marriage erf Lady Scott, widow of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, R.N., C V. 0., the gallant leader of the Antarctic Expedition, which met with disaster in 1912, to Lieutenant-Commander E. Hilton Young, D. 5.0., D.S.C., M.P., youngest son of Sir George Young, Bt., of Formosa, Cookham, and Lady Young. Lady Scott received the rank of a K.C.B.’s widow ,by Royal Warrant ir recognition of her husband’s work. Lieutenant-Com-mander Young is Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and is Liberal member for the City of Norwich. He has a splendid war record, for between 1914-1919 he was in the Iron Duke and the Centaur, and ho was one of the officers in the Vindictive when she took part in the Zeebrugge enterprise. During the operations he was severely wounded, and thought himself fortunate to escape with the loss of his right arm only. His reward on this occasion was the D.S.G. He also served with the British Mission in Serbia, where he won the Serbian Medal for gallantry, while for “great initiative, gallantry, and dash when in command of an armoured train during operations at Archangel,” he was awarded the D.S.O.

Lieutenant-Commander Young was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar atthe Inner Temple in 1904, practising in. the King’s Bench Division and on the Oxford Circuit. But journalism rather than law was afterwards his vocation. Formerly a financial editor, he is now, at the age of 43, one of the financial lights serving under Sir Robert Horne at the Treasury. He has a cool head, a lucid

manner in replying to questions, and is a general favourite with members.

Lady Scott, who is a daughter of the late Canon. Lloyd Stewart Bruce, of Stokesley, Yorks, has done much successful work as a sculptor, and has designed several well-known public monuments. One of her principal works is the statue of her late husband in Waterloo-place, and another public monument to the hero of the Antarctic is at Portsmouth. Among her sitters have been Mr Asquith, Colonel Lawrence, and the late American Ambassador. For eleven months during the war Lady Scott made munitions in a big factory, and her industry and influence stimulated the output by the girls of her section. During 1916 she was private secretary to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Pensions. With regard to her sculptural “talent, this is partly traceable to her descent. Her mother was a Skene, a lialf-Greek, and her grandmother came from one of the most aristocratic Greek families. From her earliest years the grandmother imbibed the love of Greek I art, and this has descended to Lady Scott. I Lady Scott has travelled extensively in . Greece, Turkey, Mexico, Australia, the ■ West Indies, and other parte of the i world.

The marriage of Lady Scott recalls the poignant message in which Captain'Scott left his wife and child to the care of his fellow-countrymen. The boy, Peter Scott, is now quite a sturdy lad of about 12. His

father desired that he should become a ‘ strenuous- man,” and he shows every promise-of realising that wish. In the tentwhere Captain Scott waited eight days for death with Dr Wilson and Lieut. Bowers, the search party found the leader’s diary, in whicji Captain Scott, on 25th March, 1912, after detailing the causes of the disaster, wrote; —“Had we lived, I should have: had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance; and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough, notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale; but surely a great, rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent upon us are properly provided for.” Lady Scott received a Civil Service annuity of £lOO.