John Macgregor Bruce Lockhart

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

CMG 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 John Harold "J.H." Bruce Lockhart (4 March 1889 – 4 June 1956) was a Scotland international cricket player; and a Scotland international rugby union player. He became a schoolmaster. He was part of the noted Bruce Lockhart family. He was also ...

, a Scottish rugby international who was then a schoolmaster at

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and later became head of

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. Educated at Rugby School and the

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, 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
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'' dated 12 May 1995, accessed 12 April 2018. At the outset of the

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, 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

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. 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

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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

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, and in 1967 moved on to

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, as Head of its Central Staff Department. From 1971 to 1980, when he retired, he was Director of the Post Experience Programme at the

City University Business School Bayes Business School, formerly known as Cass Business School, is the business school of City St George's, University of London, located in St Luke's, just to the north of the City of London. It was established in 1966. Bayes Business School i ...

, 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

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, 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 Dugald Bruce Lockhart is an Anglo-Scottish stage and screen actor, director and writer. Background and education A member of the Bruce Lockhart family, Lockhart was born in Fiji in 1968, the son of James Robert Bruce Lockhart (1941–2018), ...

(born 1968), an actor. He died on 7 May 1995.

Honours

*Officer of the

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, 1944 *Companion of the

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, 1951 *Companion of the

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, 1966

Notes

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