Robert Scott

Robert, Bob or Bobby Scott may refer to:

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Politicians

Robert Scott (1705–1780)

Robert Scott (1705 – 27 December 1780) of Dunninald in Forfarshire was a Scottish politician. He was elected at a by-election in March 1733 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Forfarshire, in the place of his deceased relative James Scott of Logie. He was defeated at the 1734 general election by Thomas Lyon (later Earl of Strathmore), and defeated again at the by-election in 1735 after Lyon's succession to the peerage.

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Robert Falcon Scott

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO, RN (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was an English Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Polar Plateau, on which the South Pole is located. During the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. On their return journey, Scott's party discovered plant fossils, proving Antarctica was once forested and joined to other continents. A planned meeting with supporting dog teams from the base camp failed, and at a distance of 150 miles from their base camp and 11 miles from the next depot, Scott and his companions died from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold.

Before his appointment to lead the Discovery Expedition, Scott had followed the conventional career of a naval officer in the Royal Navy. In 1899, he had a chance encounter with Sir Clements Markham, the president of the Royal Geographical Society, thus learning of a planned Antarctic expedition, and soon volunteered to lead this expedition. Having taken this step, his name became inseparably associated with the Antarctic, the field of work to which he remained committed during the final twelve years of his life.