Robin Bruce Lockhart


Robert Norman Bruce Lockhart, known as Robin, was a British journalist, stock broker, and author.

Biography

Bruce Lockhart was the only son of British spy R. H. Bruce Lockhart and was educated at Eagle House School and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. During the Second World War he served in British naval intelligence, and was stationed in Singapore, where he met and married his first wife, Peggy in 1942. After the War he pursued a career in journalism, working for the Beaverbrook Press in London, Manchester and Glasgow. He later became a stock broker, while continuing to pursue his literary interests. He lived in Sussex and France.
Ace of Spies, Lockhart's book about the secret agent Sidney Reilly, was published in 1967, and Troy Kennedy Martin adapted it into the television serial , starring Sam Neill as the title character, with Ian Charleson as his father. The book was republished in 1984 as Reilly: Ace of Spies.
Bruce Lockhart converted to Roman Catholicism. His book about the Carthusians, Half-way to Heaven, came from his own experiences as a lay guest at St Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster.
In 1995 he wrote a Preface to a new edition of his father's Scotch: The Whisky of Scotland in Fact and Story. Lockhart was then living in Hove, Sussex. He said he had done much fishing in Sutherland, in the River Oykel, Loch Stack, and Loch Craggie, and that after fishing he found that the local Glenmorangie whisky brought "a joyous, happy peace". A great-great-grandfather had owned the Balmenach distillery, and about 1980 he had himself served on a Which? panel, tasting malt whiskies. The ancestor in question was James McGregor, who in 1824 had taken out a licence for a distillery he had been working illicitly.
Lockhart was married three times and had one daughter by his first wife.
Lockhart died on 8 February 2008 in Brighton, Sussex. Probate was granted in the name of "Lockhart, Robert Bruce".

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