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 Canada, or else overseas, in India, Malaya, Australia, Russia, Rhodesia, Fiji, and elsewhere.

R. H. Bruce Lockhart,
in Malaya, 1909

Origins
Sir George Bruce, a 16th century ancestor
of the Bruce Lockharts, in Culross Abbey

The first of the family to combine the two names was the schoolmaster Robert Bruce Lockhart (1858—1950), born at Montreal in Upper Canada and a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, who was the son of Robert Arthur Lockhart (1832–1904) and Annabella Wilson (1833–1888), both of whom had been born in Glasgow and died in Edinburgh.[1][2] His mother was a daughter of William Wilson and Annabella Bruce (1807–1884) herself a daughter of James Hamilton Bruce (1783–1823), who was a great-great-grandson of Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine. He was descended from Thomas Bruce, 1st Baron of Clackmannan, as are most Bruces, including the Chiefs of Clan Bruce. Thomas Bruce is known to have been related to Robert the Bruce (1274–1329), king of Scotland, but how is not clear.[3][4]

Alexander Bruce (1629–1680),
another ancestor

Lockhart was headmaster of several schools: first the Waid Academy, at Anstruther, then Spier's School, Beith, a new school. In 1895 he founded Seafield House Preparatory School at Broughty Ferry, and in 1906 bought Eagle House School, at Sandhurst, Berkshire.[1] For Lockhart, the name Bruce was a middle Christian name, celebrating distinguished ancestors,[5] 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.

Family character

In his book Dragon Days (2013), James Bruce Lockhart sums up the family character when he arrived at the Dragon School in 1949: "The Bruce Lockhart family were schoolmasters, imperial soldiers, and diplomats, they taught, directed, and administered; and they played games in their spare time; muscular Christianity was their thing."[6]

Family members

Robert Bruce Lockhart married Florence Stewart McGregor (1864–1928),[3] who had been born in Riverton, New Zealand. Both were Scottish by descent, and in My Scottish Youth, their eldest son claimed "There is no drop of English blood in my veins."[7] Their children were:

  • Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart (1887–1970), or Bertie,[3] later sometimes known as Sir Bruce Lockhart, diplomat, spy, and author, in 1913 he married firstly Jean Bruce Haslewood, and in 1948 secondly Frances Mary Beck; he was the father of
  • Sir Robert McGregor MacDonald Lockhart (1893—1981),[3] Commander-in-Chief, Indian Army, called Rob Lockhart
  • Norman Douglas Stewart Bruce Lockhart (1894–1915),[3] an officer in the Seaforth Highlanders, killed at the Battle of Loos[8]
  • William Rupert Bruce Lockhart (1899–1993),[3] known as Rupert, an actor[9]
  • Winifred Bruce Lockhart, called Freda (1909–1987),[3] actress, disability advocate, and author[10] and film critic[11]
  • John Harold Bruce Lockhart (1889–1956), called Rufus,[3] schoolmaster, Scotland footballer, cricketer, and headmaster of Sedbergh School from 1937 to 1954; married Alwine Mona Ivy Brougham (1891–1980) and was the father of
    • John Macgregor Bruce Lockhart (1914—1995),[3] schoolmaster and deputy director of MI6; he married Margaret Hone, daughter of Campbell Hone, and had two sons and a daughter;[12] he was the father of
      • James Robert Bruce Lockhart (1941–2018)[13], diplomat, spy, author, and artist,[14] the father of
      • Alexander John (Sandy) Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart (1942–2008),[3] a farmer in Southern Rhodesia who returned to farm in Kent and became leader of Kent County Council. He married Tessa D. Pressland in 1966 and was the father of
        • Mark Alexander Bruce Lockhart (born 1967), married Jessica Davina Burn in 2000,[16] the father of
          • Jemima Kate Bruce-Lockhart (born 2002)
          • Isabel Anna Bruce-Lockhart (born 2004)
          • Olivia Rose Bruce-Lockhart (born 2007)
        • Emma Natasha Bruce Lockhart (born 1970), married 1999 Rupert John Sloane[16]
          • Xanthe Clementine Sloane (born 2001)
          • India Victoria Sloane (born 2003)
        • Simon David Bruce-Lockhart FGA (born 1973),[16] a ruby and sapphire buyer for Thaigem, and writer on precious stones, living in Chanthaburi[17]
      • Sarah Katharine M. Lockhart (born 1955),[3] married 1977 Michael C. Waller-Bridge[15]
    • Rab Brougham Bruce Lockhart (1916–1990),[3] schoolmaster and Scotland rugby footballer, head master of Loretto School from 1960 to 1976, married Helen Priscilla Lawrence Crump in 1941. Father of
      • Karen Bruce-Lockhart (born 1942),[3] Edinburgh advocate and Writer to the Signet, governor of Sedbergh School[18]
      • Alastair Kim Bruce-Lockhart (1946—1980),[3][19] teacher and squash international, known as Kim, the father of
        • Anna Bruce-Lockhart (1977), editor living in Geneva, Switzerland
      • Malcolm Bruce Lockhart (born 1948)[3][20] Harrow School teacher, living in Somerset
    • Dr Patrick Bruce Lockhart (1918—2009), called Paddy,[3] obstetrician, President of the Ontario Medical Association,[21] married firstly Mary Campbell Seddall, 1942, and after her death in December 1960 married secondly Eve Didychuk. He was the father of[22]
    • Logie Bruce Lockhart (born 1921),[3] Scotland rugby footballer, headmaster of Gresham's School, and author; he married Josephine Agnew in 1944, and they had two sons and three daughters:[28]
      • Jennifer Bruce Lockhart (born 1945), called Jenny[3]
      • Ruraidh Bruce Lockhart (born 1949)[3][29]
      • Kirsten A. Bruce Lockhart, known as Kirsty (1953—1959)[3][30]
      • Fiona Jacqueline Bruce-Lockhart (born 1957),[3] married George P. S. Drye in 1983 and is a schoolteacher and Head of English
        • Alastair George Bruce-Lockhart Drye (born 1985) property developer
        • Dacre Bruce-Lockhart Drye (born 1985), author
      • Duncan Rhoderick Macgregor (Bede) Bruce-Lockhart (born 1967),[3] executive of Piper Jaffray, later of Matrix[31]

Notes
  1. Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, Volume 1 (Macmillan, 1973), p. 9
  2. "Robert Bruce Lockhart M.A. 1878" (obituary) in University of Edinburgh Journal, Volumes 15-16 (1951), p. 107: "ROBERT BRUCE LOCKHART, M.A. 1878, late headmaster of Eagle House, Sandhurst, previously of Waid Academy, Anstruther, Spiers School, Beith, and Seafield House, Broughty Ferry : in London, 18th November 1950, aged 91."
  3. Jamie Bruce Lockhart & Alan Macfarlane, Dragon Days (2013) (full text online at cam.ac.uk), p. 11
  4. Sir Robert Douglas, The Peerage of Scotland: containing an historical and genealogical account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, (Edinburgh: R. Fleming, 1764), p. 294
  5. When he died in 1949, probate on his estate was granted to "LOCKHART, Robert Bruce": from Probate Index for 1950 at probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar, accessed 12 April 2018
  6. Lockhart & Macfarlane, Dragon Days (2013), p. 9
  7. R. H. Bruce Lockhart, My Scottish Youth (Reprinted by B&W Publishing, Edinburgh, 1993, ISBN 1 873631 26 X), pp. 313–353
  8. Norman Douglas Stewart Bruce Lockhart at forces-war-records.co.uk
  9. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1698679/ Rupert Bruce Lockhart] at imdb.com
  10. [https://www.amazon.com/London-disabled-Freda-Bruce-Lockhart/dp/B001NSTYUK London Disabled at Amazon.com
  11. Freda Bruce Lockhart (1909-1987), Actress and film critic at npg.org.uk
  12. John Taylor, OBITUARY:John Bruce Lockhart in The Independent dated Friday 12 May 1995, accessed 12 April 2018
  13. "James Bruce-Lockhart obituary. Intelligence officer from a family of spies, who followed in John Le Carré’s footsteps in Germany and was an accomplished artist," The Times, 5 December 2018, accessed 22 February 2019
  14. BRUCE-LOCKHART, Jamie, at suffolkartists.co.uk, accessed 12 April 2018
  15. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Burke's Irish Family Records (London: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976), p. 598
  16. Burke's Peerage, volume 1, (2003), p. 555
  17. Simon Bruce-Lockhart FGA, "Sapphires from Northern Ethiopia" in Gems and Gemology vol. 53 (August 2017)
  18. Karen Bruce-Lockhart at checkcompany.co.uk
  19. "Bruce-Lockhart Alastair K / Crump" in Register of Births for Surrey N.W. Registration District, vol. 2a (1946), p. 829a
  20. "Bruce-Lockhart Malcolm / Crump" in Register of Births for Harrow Registration District, vol. 5f (1948), p. 604
  21. Dr Paddy Bruce-Lockhart (obituary) in The Scotsman dated 25 August 2009 at scotsman.com/news/obituaries, accessed 21 April 2018
  22. Patrick Bruce-Lockhart (25 May 1918 – 6 August 2009) (obituary), accessed 12 April 2018
  23. Ashley Thomson, Sylvie Lafortune, The Handbook of Canadian Boarding Schools (1999), pp. 117, 118
  24. Bruce-Lockhart, Katherine at utoronto.ca
  25. The race to capitalize on data at born2invest.com
  26. The trials tribulations and triumphs of digital transformation at hackernoon.com
  27. Softchoice appoints Patrick Bruce-Lockhart
  28. Burke's Peerage, volume 1 (2003), p. 556
  29. "Lockhart Ruraidh B / Agnew" in Register of Births for Tonbridge Registration District, vol. 5b (1949), p. 1241
  30. "LOCKHART Kirsten A / AGNEW", Tonbridge vol. 5b (1953), p. 1,221; "LOCKHART Kirsty A B, aged 7" in Norwich Outer vol. 4b (1960), p. 579
  31. Ian King, Business big shot: David Wilson of Matrix in The Times 21 December 2010
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gollark: Great, so now I have to keep that around too.
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