Robert Heatlie Scott
Sir Robert Heatlie Scott, GCMG, CBE (20 September 1905 – 26 February 1982) was a British civil servant who became Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence.
Career
[edit]Educated at Inverness Academy, Queen's Royal College in Trinidad and New College, Oxford, Scott was called to the bar before joining the civil service in 1927.[1] In 1941, during the Second World War, he sat on the Governor's War Council in Singapore.[1] He was taken prisoner by the Japanese after Singapore was captured and beaten and tortured.[1]
After the war Scott became Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office and then Minister at the British Embassy in Washington D. C. before returning to Singapore as Commissioner-General in 1955.[1] He went on to be Commandant of the Imperial Defence College in 1960 and then Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence in 1961.[1]
In retirement Scott was Lord Lieutenant of Peeblesshire and then Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale.[1] He lived at Lyne Station House in Peebleshire.[2]
Family
[edit]In 1933 Scott married Rosamond Aeliz Dewar-Durie; they had a son and a daughter.[2]
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