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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Cricket career

Amateur career

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

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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 Scotland Possibles on 18 January 1913.

International career

He was an international rugby footballer, representing

as a

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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 Cargilfield Preparatory School, and in 1937 moved on to become head of his old school,

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, 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

Lockhart was born in Beith, North Ayrshire on 4 March 1889, the son of Robert Bruce Lockhart, headmaster of Spier's School, Beith, since 1888, by his marriage to Florence Stuart Macgregor.Lockhart, John Harold Bruce
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'' https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U239935, Retrieved 26 June 2020 In 1895 his father, Robert Lockhart, moved on from Spier's School to Seafield House at Broughty Ferry, a new school he founded.
at britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk Later, Lockhart became headmaster of

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

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, where he was Head of School House, Captain of Football, and Captain of Cricket. After Sedbergh, he went on to

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, where he read Modern Languages. In 1913, J.H. Bruce Lockhart married (Alwine) Mona, the daughter of Henry Brougham, formerly a schoolmaster at

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, and they had four sons. These were the headmaster and intelligence officer

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(1914–1995), the obstetrician

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(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

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. 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 Arts Council and was a governor of

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, a member of the Council of the

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, and a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.

References

External links

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Cricket career

Amateur career

International career

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Provincial career

International career

Teaching Career

Military career

Family

See also

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