Sir Robert Heatlie Scott GCMG

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 CBE

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 (20 September 1905 – 26 February 1982) was a British civil servant who became Permanent Secretary

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 of the Ministry of Defence

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Career

Educated at Inverness Academy, Queen's Royal College

Queen's Royal College

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 in Trinidad

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 and New College, Oxford

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, Scott was called to the bar

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 before joining the civil service in 1927. In 1941 during World War II

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 he sat on the Governor's War Council in Singapore

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. He was taken prisoner by the Japan

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ese after Singapore was captured and beaten and tortured.

After the War he became Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office

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 and then Minister at the British Embassy in Washington D. C. before returning to Singapore as Commissioner-General in 1955. He went on to be Commandant of the Imperial Defence College

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 in 1960 and then Permanent Secretary

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 of the Ministry of Defence

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 in 1961.

In retirement he was Lord Lieutenant of Peeblesshire

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 and then Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale

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. He lived at Lyne Station House in Peebleshire.