Felicity Philippa, Lady Scott (née 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.

• The Art of Peter Scott (completely revised in 2008)
• Lucky Me (autobiographical)
• So Many Sunlit Hours (autobiographical)

Scotts' wrasse, Cirrhilabrus scottorum was named after Scott and her husband for their “great contribution in nature conservation".^[8]

• "The Scott partnership put conservation on the map, at a time when conservation was not a word that most people understood." - Sir David Attenborough^[9]

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.

• "Philippa Scott obituary" The Guardian obituary (10 January 2010).
• Stroud News obituary The Stroud News and Journal obituary (16 January 2010)
• Oral history/interviews dating from Slimbridge 2005