The Bruce Lockhart family is of Scottish origins, and several members have played rugby football for Scotland, but since the early 20th century most have lived and worked in England or Canada, or else overseas, in India, Malaya, Australia, Russia, Rhodesia, Fiji, and elsewhere.
The first of the family to combine the two names was the schoolmaster Robert Bruce Lockhart (1858—18 Nov 1949), born at Montreal in Upper Canada and a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, who was the son of Robert Arthur Lockhart (1832–1904) and Annabella Wilson (1833–1888), both of whom had been born in Glasgow and died in Edinburgh.[1][2] His mother was a daughter of William Wilson and Annabella Bruce (1807–1884) herself a daughter of James Hamilton Bruce (1783–1823), who was a great-great-grandson of Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine. He was descended from Thomas Bruce, 1st Baron of Clackmannan, as are most Bruces, including the Chiefs of Clan Bruce. Thomas Bruce is known to have been related to Robert the Bruce (1274–1329), king of Scotland, but how is not clear.[3][4]
Lockhart was headmaster of several schools: first the Waid Academy, at Anstruther, then Spier's School, Beith, a new school. In 1895 he founded Seafield House Preparatory School at Broughty Ferry, and in 1906 bought Eagle House School, at Sandhurst, Berkshire.[1] For Lockhart, the name Bruce was a middle Christian name, celebrating distinguished ancestors,[5] and most of his sons also had it as a middle name, their surname as registered at the General Register Office remaining simply Lockhart. However, by the use of the name by almost all the men of the family, and later by all its daughters, too, the name Bruce has come to be regarded as part of the surname, in some cases leading to the adoption of a hyphen.
Family character
In his book Dragon Days (2013), James Bruce Lockhart sums up the family character when he arrived at the Dragon School in 1949: "The Bruce Lockhart family were schoolmasters, imperial soldiers, and diplomats, they taught, directed, and administered; and they played games in their spare time; muscular Christianity was their thing."[6]
Family members
Robert Bruce Lockhart married Florence Stewart McGregor (1864–1928),[3] who had been born in Riverton, New Zealand. Both were Scottish by descent, and in My Scottish Youth, their eldest son claimed "There is no drop of English blood in my veins."[7] Their children and descendants are:
Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart (1887–1970), or Bertie,[3] later sometimes known as Sir Bruce Lockhart, diplomat, spy, and author, in 1913 he married firstly Jean Bruce Haslewood, and in 1948 secondly Frances Mary Beck;[8] he was the father of
Robert Norman Bruce Lockhart (1920–2008), naval intelligence officer, journalist, stockbroker, and author, known as Robin[8] married 1st Margaret Graham Crookdake (born 1921), 2nd Ginette Martens, 3rd Eila Owen. Father of
John Macgregor Bruce Lockhart (1914—1995),[3] schoolmaster and deputy director of MI6; he married Margaret Hone, daughter of Campbell Hone, and had two sons and a daughter;[9] he was the father of
Anna Bruce-Lockhart (1977), editor living in Geneva, Switzerland
Malcolm Bruce Lockhart (born 1948)[3][17] Harrow School teacher, living in Somerset
Dr Patrick Bruce Lockhart (1918—2009), called Paddy,[3] obstetrician, President of the Ontario Medical Association,[18] married firstly Mary Campbell Seddall, 1942, and after her death in December 1960 married secondly Eve Didychuk. He was the father of[19]
Mary Mavora Lockhart (1919–2000), who married firstly Alastair T. Scott (divorced) and secondly Henry Casselton Chapman[27]
Sally Anne Scott(1943–1944)
Wendy Louise Chapman(1954–2000)
Lt. Col. Norman Neil Campbell Lockhart (1925–2020), named after Norman Douglas Stewart Bruce Lockhart and commissioned into his uncle's regiment, the Seaforth Highlanders.[29] He married Audrey Carrol Beadon, daughter of Brigadier H. D. Beadon[27]
Elizabeth Winifred (1924–1985), who married Major E. P. Woods, Welsh Guards[27]
Phyllis Margaret, who married Lt. Cmdr James Mcnie Whyte R. N.[27]
Norman Douglas Stewart Bruce Lockhart (1894–1915),[3] an officer in the Seaforth Highlanders, killed at the Battle of Loos[30]
William Rupert Bruce Lockhart (1899–1993),[3] known as Rupert, an actor[31]
Jean Frances Winifred Phyllis Lockhart, known as Freda Bruce Lockhart (1909–1987),[3] actress, disability advocate and author,[32] and film critic;[33] married 1940 Hilton Roy Schleman, a film publicity director and writer on jazz.
Notes
^ abSir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, Volume 1 (Macmillan, 1973), p. 9
^"Robert Bruce Lockhart M.A. 1878" (obituary) in University of Edinburgh Journal, Volumes 15-16 (1951), p. 107: "ROBERT BRUCE LOCKHART, M.A. 1878, late headmaster of Eagle House, Sandhurst, previously of Waid Academy, Anstruther, Spiers School, Beith, and Seafield House, Broughty Ferry : in London, 18th November 1950, aged 91."
^Sir Robert Douglas, The Peerage of Scotland: containing an historical and genealogical account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, (Edinburgh: R. Fleming, 1764), p. 294
^When he died in 1949, probate on his estate was granted to "LOCKHART, Robert Bruce": from Probate Index for 1950 at probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar, accessed 12 April 2018
^"James Bruce-Lockhart obituary. Intelligence officer from a family of spies, who followed in John Le Carré's footsteps in Germany and was an accomplished artist," The Times, 5 December 2018, accessed 22 February 2019
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