Colour, Culture and Comfort
The Collection of the Late John Scott-Oldfield
65 Warwick Square, London, SW1
John Scott-Oldfield was born in 1933 in Cawnpore, India, before travelling to the UK for his schooling, where he soon displayed a burgeoning talent for sport, going on to win a blue in athletics at Cambridge University. In early adulthood he continued to pursue his passion, playing rugby for Harlequins as well as representing Great Britain in the 100m sprint and 200m hurdles at the 1958 Commonwealth Games, disciplines in which he was subsequently selected to compete at the Olympic Games. Instead, however, he chose to follow employment with Royal Dutch Shell, which took him to the Philippines, where he met his soon to be wife, Honora Baroness von Fürstenberg. The two subsequently moved to Nigeria, starting a family before returning to London in the 1970s, where John carried on forging an illustrious business career and jointly founding The Corporate Consulting Group, advising chairmen and boards in a wide variety of sectors, and making an impact throughout the international corporate world. Despite the decidedly more business-orientated direction that his life took, sport remained very close to his heart and he always made time for a polo match or a day’s shooting.
