Robert Heatlie Scott

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]

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