Robert Heatlie Scott
Sir Robert Heatlie Scott, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence.
Career
Educated at Inverness Academy,
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
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence in 1961.[1]
In retirement Scott was
Peebleshire.[2]
Family
In 1933 Scott married Rosamond Aeliz Dewar-Durie; they had a son and a daughter.[2]
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