Simon C. Bruce-Lockhart (born 1949), is a

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who taught at several schools in

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between 1972 and 2015. He was first an English and Mathematics teacher, and then also a

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, at his old school,

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, and later a housemaster at

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, then was successively Head of School at Albert College, Belleville,

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, Mulgrave School, and

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, the last three of which are in

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Early life

Bruce-Lockhart is one of the sons of

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(1918–2009), an obstetrician, by his marriage in 1942 to Mary Campbell Seddall. His parents emigrated from Britain to Canada in 1953, and after his mother's death in 1960 his father remarried and had more children, two more sons and a daughter. He is the brother of Michael Bruce-Lockhart (born 1947), now retired as Professor of Computer Engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and they also have a younger full sister, Ferelyth. The

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has a long tradition of teaching. Bruce-Lockhart's grandfather,

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, was headmaster of

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, in the north of England, and two of his uncles,

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and

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, were headmasters who had played

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for Scotland. His great-grandfather, Robert Bruce Lockhart (1858–1950), was a Scottish headmaster born at

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, in Canada, and he lived long enough for them to meet. Bruce-Lockhart was educated at

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, from 1962 to 1967,"The Faculty" in ''Acta Ridleiana THE YEARBOOK OF RIDLEY COLLEGE 1978–1979''
p. 2
at archive.org: "S.C. BRUCE-LOCKHART (O.R. 62-67)(1972) B.A., Yale University, English, Mathematics, Housemaster, Gooderham House" where he was a school prefect in his final year, and

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, where he graduated BA.Ashley Thomson, Sylvie Lafortune, ''The Handbook of Canadian Boarding Schools'' (1999)
pp. 117, 118
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Career

Following in the family tradition, after Yale, Bruce-Lockhart trained for a teaching career. In 1972 he returned to Ridley College, his old school, as a master, to teach English and Mathematics, but took time out from 1975 to 1976 to spend a year at Dalhousie University studying law. He then returned to Ridley as

of Gooderham House, before moving on in 1979 to

, in

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, on

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, from 1990 to 2000, Mulgrave School,

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, in 2003–2004, and

, also in

, from 2004 to 2015. In 1990, shortly after his arrival at Shawnigan Lake School, Bruce-Lockhart persuaded Jason Dorland to come to the school as a rowing coach, and Dorland has described him as "a big man", a rugby, football, and hockey player with "gentleness and kindness about him".Jason Dorland, ''Chariots and Horses: Life Lessons from an Olympic Rower'' (Heritage House, 2011)
p. 73
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Notes

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