Rab Bruce Lockhart
Rab Brougham Bruce Lockhart was a Scottish educationist and rugby union player, who gained three caps for Scotland, and who played for Cambridge University R.U.F.C. and London Scottish FC. He was capped three times for between 1937 and 1939. He also played for London Scottish RFC. He played for the Scotland national cricket team and was asked to play for Canada but unable to do so.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 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. 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.
Lockhart married Helen Priscilla Lawrence Crump, 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.
