SCOTT, Jeremy 1934-2026
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He was s of James Maurice SCOTT 1906-86 and Pamela Mary d of Henry George WATKINS and Jennie Helen d 1928 d of Col Bolton James Alfred MONSELL 1840-1919 (f of 1 Viscount MONSELL 1881-1969) and Mary Beverley c1845-1929 d of Lt-Col Sir Edmund OGLE 6 Bt 1816-87 and Catherine Beverly 1824-1917 d of Henry Charles ST HILL and Mary WINDLE. He m first 1964 (div) Tanya EDYE and had a dau as below. He m second Penelope BRAHMS.
Obit in the Times of 11 June 2026
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Jeremy Scott obituary: adman and author of racy memoir
Fast-living adman whose candid autobiography detailed his aristocratic childhood, louche life in the Sixties and spiking Ted Heath with speed, dies aged 91
PG Wodehouse once observed that the three essential components a person needs to write a good autobiography — advantages he did not in fact have — are “an eccentric father, a miserable misunderstood childhood and a hell of a time at his public school”.
Jeremy Scott had all three — and more — and they formed the basis of his rip-snorting, chaotic memoir Fast and Louche: Confessions of a Flagrant Sinner (2003). A fast-living adman in his formative years, Scott wrote about his Evelyn Waugh-esque childhood in the Highlands, his father, JM Scott — an Arctic explorer who materialises in the book as a cantankerous, comic figure adrift in the modern world — and his own rakish exploits: an extravagant life in the Sixties (Dylan Thomas once vomited on him), working as a failed gigolo, getting Ted Heath wired on amphetamines, and gambling with Lord Lucan. Wodehouse might have added to his list a knack for self-mythologising.
… Born in 1934, Jeremy Scott grew up among the last embers of the fading British aristocracy. Raised by a nanny, he had a solitary childhood. He ran wild across the moors of Arisaig in the west of Scotland, where his father ran a training camp for commandos and taught his son to handle knives, guns, explosives and crossbows from the age of seven. One day young Jeremy took hand grenades and blew salmon out of the river for dinner. [‘the marriage eventually collapsed’]
… A friend gave him a dog-eared copy of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations and he “grabbed it with the desperate urgency of a drowning man”. Marinating in such sage wisdom as “Rid yourself of the manifold luggage with which you are encumbered”, Scott gave away his family silver, stopped reading newspapers and became obsessed with stoic philosophy, eventually living something of an ascetic life in the south of France, where he bought two run-down mills with a Polish-American model to whom he was briefly attached.
…[he wrote] Dancing on Ice (2008), about his father’s trip across the Arctic with his fellow explorer Gino Watkins who drowned as he hunted seals from a kayak and whose sister, Pamela, Scott’s father eventually married; she was the niece of Viscount Monsell, First Lord of the Admiralty. … He is survived by his second wife, the actress and model Penelope Brahms, and Sasha, a daughter from his first marriage.
Jeremy Scott, adman, author and raconteur, was born on September 9, 1934. He died on April 9, 2026, aged 91
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/jeremy-scott-obituary-adman-and-author-of-racy-memoir-wkpwvd9dr