John Harold "J.H." Bruce Lockhart (4 March 1889 – 4 June 1956) was a

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international cricket player; and a

international

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player. He became a schoolmaster. He was part of the noted

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. He was also an artist.

Early life and education

Lockhart was born in

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on 4 March 1889, the son of Robert Bruce Lockhart, headmaster (and founder) of Spier's School, Beith, since 1888, by his marriage to Florence Stuart Macgregor.Lockhart, John Harold Bruce
in ''

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'' https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U239935, Retrieved 26 June 2020 In 1895 his father moved on from Spier's School to Seafield House at

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, a new school he founded. Lockhart senior subsequently became headmaster of

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near Sandhurst, and J. H. Bruce Lockhart was sent to

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, where he was head of house and captain of the school's association football and cricket teams. After Sedbergh, he went on to

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, where he read the modern languages

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and graduated with a second-class degree.

Cricket career

Amateur career

Beginning his education at Spier's School, Lockhart was introduced to rugby union, association football and cricket. He played cricket for

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, for whom he took over one hundred wickets. At Cambridge, he was a double Blue, for

and

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International career

Lockhart appeared twice for Scotland at first-class cricket level, against Ireland in 1910 and an All India side in 1911. In the match against Ireland he took eleven wickets, including six for 76 in the second innings.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played for London Scottish.

Provincial career

He played for

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on 18 January 1913.

International career

He was an international rugby footballer, representing

as a fly half.

Teaching career

Lockhart became an assistant master at

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in 1912. After the war, he returned to his teaching career at Rugby and became a housemaster there in 1923. In 1930 he was appointed as Headmaster of

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, and in 1937 moved on to become head of his old school, Sedbergh, where he remained until he retired in 1954.

Military career

During the First World War, he served in France in the Intelligence Corps with the British Expeditionary Force and was

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Family

In 1913, J. H. Bruce Lockhart married (Alwine) Mona, the daughter of Henry Brougham, formerly a schoolmaster at Wellington College, and they had four sons. These were the headmaster and intelligence officer J. M. Bruce Lockhart (1914–1995), the obstetrician Patrick Bruce Lockhart (1918–2009), and the headmasters and Scottish international

players

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(1916–1990) and

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for

, while his brother

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was a footballer. He was also the grandfather of Lord Bruce-Lockhart and great-grandfather of actor Dugald Bruce Lockhart. John Bruce Lockhart was an accomplished amateur artist, a member of the Lake Artists Society who exhibited at the

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, the

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, and the

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. He became a member of the Scottish Committee of the

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and was a governor of Welbeck College, a member of the Council of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, and a

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References

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Early life and education

Cricket career

Amateur career

International career

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Provincial career

International career

Teaching career

Military career

Family

See also

References

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