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Rab Bruce Lockhart

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Rab Brougham Bruce Lockhart (1 December 1916 – 1 May 1990)[1] was a Scottish educationist and rugby union player, who gained three caps for Scotland,[1][2] and who played for Cambridge University R.U.F.C. and London Scottish FC.[3] He was capped three times for Scotland between 1937 and 1939. He also played for London Scottish RFC. He played for the Scotland national cricket team[2] and was asked to play for Canada but unable to do so.

Personal life and Family

Lockhart was a member of the well-established Bruce Lockhart family. His father, John, was both a rugby and cricket international for Scotland and headmaster of Sedbergh School. His brother Logie was also a Scottish rugby international[4] and headmaster. Two other brothers were John Bruce-Lockhart, Deputy Director of MI6, and Patrick, an obstetrician. An uncle, Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, was a notable rugby footballer, spy, and journalist, whose son Robin wrote Reilly, Ace of Spies. Lord Bruce-Lockhart was his nephew. He attended Sedbergh School and Edinburgh Academy, and studied Modern Languages at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[5] He taught in Canada from 1950 to 1954, then was headmaster of Wanganui Collegiate School, New Zealand, from 1954 to 1960 and of Loretto School from 1960 to 1976.[6]

Lockhart married Helen Priscilla Lawrence Crump,[7] and they had a daughter, Karen Bruce Lockhart, and two sons, Kim and Malcolm.

Death

Bruce-Lockhart died at his home in Burneside, Cumbria, England, in 1990, aged 73, from a heart attack.

References

  1. ^ a b player profile on scrum.com retrieved 16 February 2010
  2. ^ a b Bath, p 104
  3. ^ Bath, p 138
  4. ^ Bath, p. 139
  5. ^ BRUCE LOCKHART. "BRUCE LOCKHART, Rab Brougham". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 2018 (online ed.). A & C Black. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Unknown parameter |othernames= ignored (help) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) (subscription required)
  6. ^ "History of Loretto". Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  7. ^ Burke's Peerage volume 1 (2003), p. 556

Sources

  • Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007; ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
  • Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)