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.

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] 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.

[2] In 1933 Scott married Rosamond Aeliz Dewar-Durie; they had a son and a daughter.