The Nature Chronicles Prize Sponsor, Prudence Scott (1926–2019).
The Nature Chronicles Prize Sponsor, Prudence Scott (1926–2019).
Prudence Mary Milligan was born in 1926 to a naval family. She was given a Quaker education and then trained as a nurse. In 1952 she married and in 1961 moved to the Lake District where she brought up her four children, mostly as a single parent. It was a quiet, contained sort of existence, which immersed her children in nature: hedgehogs, Fell ponies, curlews. She was a great reader, and sometimes painted and sometimes wrote poetry – but always she kept up with her journals.
The Nature Chronicles Prize Sponsor, Prudence Scott (1926–2019).
She died in London on 1 September 2019, aged 93.
I count the days happiest when I have ridden a horse, baked a cake, bathed the children, written for an hour or two, and read before sleeping. (July 1964).
Our Sponsor, Prudence Scott (1926–2019)
The Nature Chronicles Prize is also a memorial to Prudence Scott, a lifelong nature diarist who died in 2019. Her Trust is the Prize’s sponsor.
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