Bruce Lockhart family

The Bruce Lockhart family is of Scottish origins, and several members have played rugby football for Scotland, but since the early 20th century most have lived and worked in England or else served their country overseas.

The founder of the family was the Victorian schoolmaster Robert Bruce Lockhart (1858—1949), a graduate of the University of Edinburgh who was the son of Robert Arthur Lockhart and Annabella Wilson.^[1] Born in Canada, he was headmaster of several schools: first the Waid Academy, at Anstruther, then Spier's School, Beith. In 1895 he founded Seafield House Preparatory School at Broughty Ferry, and in 1906 bought Eagle House School, at Sandhurst, Berkshire.^[2] For Lockhart, the name Bruce was a middle Christian name,^[3] and most of his sons also had it as a middle name, their surname as registered at the General Register Office remaining simply Lockhart. However, by the use of the name by almost all the men of the family, and later by all its daughters, too, the name Bruce has come to be regarded as part of the surname, in some cases leading to the adoption of a hyphen.

Robert Bruce Lockhart married Florence Stewart McGregor, and their three sons were:

• Sir Robert McGregor MacDonald Lockhart (1893—1981), Commander-in-Chief, Indian Army
• Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart (1887–1970), diplomat, spy, and author; the father of
  • Robin Bruce Lockhart (1920–2008), author
• John Harold Bruce Lockhart (1889–1956), schoolmaster, footballer and cricketer, headmaster of Sedbergh School from 1937 to 1954; father of
  • John Macgregor Bruce Lockhart (1914—1995), schoolmaster and deputy director of MI6; he married Margaret Hone, daughter of Campbell Hone, and had two sons and a daughter;^[4] he was the father of
    • James Robert Bruce Lockhart (born 1941), author and artist,^[5] the father of
      • Dugald Bruce Lockhart (born 1968), actor
    • Alexander John (Sandy) Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart (1942–2008), farmer and politician, leader of Kent County Council; the father of
      • Mark Bruce-Lockhart
    • Sarah Katharine M. Lockhart (born 1955), married 1977 Michael C. Waller-Bridge
  • Rab Brougham Bruce Lockhart (1916–1990), schoolmaster and rugby footballer, head master of Loretto School from 1960 to 1976
    • Alastair Kim Bruce-Lockhart (1946—1980), squash player
    • Malcolm Bruce Lockhart (born 1948)
  • Dr Patrick (Paddy) Bruce Lockhart (1918—2009), obstetrician, President of the Ontario Medical Association, father of six children,^[6]
    • Patrick Bruce-Lockhart (born 1968), married Eleanor McCain
    • Logie W. Bruce-Lockhart
    • Ferelyth Bruce-Lockhart
    • Michael Bruce-Lockhart, retired as Professor of Computer Engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland, father of
      • Cullam Bruce-Lockhart
    • Simon C. Bruce-Lockhart, headmaster of Shawnigan Lake School, 1990—2000, father of
      • Bruce Lockhart
      • Katherine Bruce-Lockhart (born 1991)
    • Tacye Bruce-Lockhart, married name McLagan
  • Logie Bruce Lockhart (born 1921), rugby union footballer, headmaster of Gresham's School, and author; he married Josephine Agnew in 1944, and they had two sons and three daughters:^[7]
    • Jennifer Bruce Lockhart (born 1945)
    • Ruraidh Bruce Lockhart (born 1949)
    • Kirsten A. Lockhart (1953—1960)
    • Fiona Jacqueline Bruce Lockhart (born 1957), Mrs Drye
    • Duncan Rhoderick Macgregor (Bede) Bruce Lockhart (born 1967)

In his book My Scottish Youth, Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart claimed that "There is no drop of English blood in my veins."^[8]

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