John Macgregor Bruce Lockhart

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CB (9 May 1914 – 7 May 1995) was a British schoolmaster, soldier, diplomat, intelligence officer, and university administrator.

Life

Born at Rugby, Lockhart was one of the four sons of John Bruce Lockhart, a Scottish rugby international who was then a schoolmaster at Rugby School and later became head of Sedbergh School. Educated at Rugby School and the University of St Andrews, he captained the rugby XV of both and took a degree in Modern Languages. In 1937 he returned to his old school as an assistant master.John Taylor
OBITUARY: John Bruce Lockhart
in '' The Independent'' dated 12 May 1995, accessed 12 April 2018. At the outset of the Second World War, Lockhart joined the

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and was recruited as an instructor by the Intelligence Corps, in which his father had also served. By 1941 he was a Major and was chief instructor on a course at the Intelligence training centre in Oxford. In 1942 he went out to the Middle East as a

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field officer. At the end of the war, Lockhart was posted as assistant

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to the British Embassy in Paris, and then in 1948 joined the Allied Control Commission in Germany, in fact taking charge of the Secret Intelligence Service network there. In 1951 he went to the British Embassy in Washington DC as First Secretary, after which from 1953 to 1965 he was officially attached to the Foreign Office in London, but in fact working for the Secret Intelligence Service again. In 1963 and 1964 he was in charge of operations in Africa, a task which he found deeply frustrating. In 1965 he left the SIS to join Warwick University, and in 1967 moved on to Courtaulds, as Head of its Central Staff Department. From 1971 to 1980, when he retired, he was Director of the Post Experience Programme at the

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, and simultaneously chaired the Business Education Council from 1974 to 1980.

Private life

On 14 September 1939, Lockhart married Margaret Evelyn Hone, a daughter of Campbell Hone, Bishop of Wakefield, and Emily Maude Weaver,Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, ''Burke's Irish Family Records'' (London: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976), p. 598 and they had two sons and a daughter. Lockhart's children were James Robert Bruce Lockhart (1941–2018), Alexander John (Sandy) Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart (1942–2008), and Sarah Katharine Bruce Lockhart (born 1955). His elder son was the father of Dugald Bruce Lockhart (born 1968), an actor. He died on 7 May 1995.

Honours

*Officer of the Order of the British Empire, 1944 *Companion of the

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, 1951 *Companion of the Order of the Bath, 1966

Notes

External links

Lockhart, John Macgregor Bruce
at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription site) {{DEFAULTSORT:Lockhart, John Macgregor Bruce 1914 births 1995 deaths Alumni of the University of St Andrews British military attachés

John Macgregor John MacGregor, John Macgregor or John McGregor may refer to: Sportsmen * John McGregor (footballer, born 1851), Scottish international football player * John McGregor (footballer, born 1900) (1900–1993), English football player * John McGrego ...

Companions of the Order of the Bath Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Officers of the Order of the British Empire People associated with Bayes Business School People educated at Rugby School Intelligence Corps officers British Army personnel of World War II Seaforth Highlanders officers Secret Intelligence Service personnel