R. H. Bruce Lockhart
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Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart KCMG
(2 September 1887 – 27 February 1970), was a journalist
, author
, secret agent
, British
diplomat in Moscow
and Prague
, and footballer
. His 1932 book Memoirs of a British Agent became an international bestseller, and brought him to the world’s attention.
, Fife
, Scotland
, the son of Robert Bruce Lockhart, the first headmaster of Spier’s School, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland. His mother was a Macgregor, while his other ancestors include Bruces, Hamiltons, Cummings, Wallaces and Douglases. He also claimed he could trace a connection back to Boswell of Auchinleck
. He once remarked, "There is no drop of English blood in my veins."
His family were mostly schoolmasters. His brother John Harold Bruce Lockhart
was the headmaster of Sedbergh School
, while his nephews Rab Bruce Lockhart
and Logie Bruce Lockhart
went on to become headmasters of Loretto
and Gresham’s
. His great-nephew, Simon Bruce-Lockhart, is currently the headmaster of Glenlyon Norfolk School.
Bruce Lockhart went to school himself at Fettes College
in Edinburgh
.
to join two uncles who were rubber planters
there. According to his own account, he was sent to open up a new rubber estate near Pantai
in Negeri Sembilan
, in a district where "there were no other white men". He then "caused a minor sensation by carrying off Amai, the beautiful ward of the Dato’ Klana, the local Malay prince… my first romance". However, three years in Malaya, and one with Amai, came to an end when "…doctors pronounced Malaria, but there were many people who said that I had been poisoned". One of his uncles and one of his cousins "bundled my emaciated body into a motor car and… packed me off home via Japan and America". The Dato’ Klana in question was the chief
of Sungei Ujong, the most important of the Nine States of Negeri Sembilan, whose palace was at Ampangan
.
and was posted to Moscow
as Vice-Consul.
At the time of his arrival in Russia, people had heard that a great footballer named Lockhart from Cambridge was arriving, and he was invited to turn out for Morozov a textile factory team that played their games 30 miles east of Moscow – the manager of the cotton mill was from Lancashire, England. Bruce Lockhart played for most of the 1912 season and won the Moscow league championship that year. The great player however was Robert’s brother, John, who had played rugby union for Scotland, and by his own admission Robert barely deserved his place in the team and played simply for the love of the sport.
Bruce Lockhart was Acting British Consul-General in Moscow when the first Russian Revolution
broke out in early 1917, but left shortly before the Bolshevik Revolution
of October that year.
He soon returned to Russia at the behest of Prime Minister Lloyd George
and Lord Milner as the United Kingdom’s first envoy to the Bolsheviks (Russia) in January 1918 in an attempt to counteract German
influence.
Lockhart, on his return, was also working for the Secret Intelligence Service
and had been given £648 worth of diamonds to fund the creation of an agent network in Russia.
Moura Budberg
, the widow of a high-ranking Czarist diplomat Count Johann von Benckendorff, became his mistress.
Later, Bruce Lockhart spoke out for Arthur Ransome
, saying he had been a valuable intelligence asset amid the worst chaos of the revolution. As the chaos worsened in Russia and purges took hold among the Bolshevik leaders, Lockhart recommended official assistance to bring Trotsky's secretary, Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina, to England.
Lockhart from then on was involved in numerous espionage plots against the Bolshevik government, including a plan to snatch Tsar Nicholas II from their custody.
on the Eastern Front. He was unsuccessful in this endeavour.
, were dramatically implicated in a plot to assassinate
Bolshevik
leader Vladimir Lenin
. He was accused of plotting against the Bolshevik regime and, for a time during 1918, was confined in the Kremlin
as a prisoner and feared being condemned to death. However, he escaped trial in an exchange of "secret agents
" for the Russia
n diplomat
Maksim Maksimovich Litvinov.
He later wrote about his experiences in his 1932 autobiographical book, Memoirs of a British Agent which became an instant worldwide hit, and was made into the 1934 film British Agent
by Warner Brothers.
, Lockhart became director-general of the Political Warfare Executive
, co-ordinating all British propaganda
against the Axis powers
. He was also for a time the British liaison officer to the Czechoslovak government-in-exile
under President Edvard Beneš
.
After the war, he resumed his writing career, as well as lecturing and broadcasting, and made a weekly BBC Radio
broadcast to Czechoslovakia
for over ten years.
, who wrote the 1967 book Ace of Spies — about his father’s friend and fellow agent Sidney Reilly
— from which the 1983 miniseries Reilly, Ace of Spies
was produced.
Lockhart died in 1970 at the age of 83, but tales of his adventures in Moscow have recently returned to the public eye when Scottish
professional footballer
Garry O’Connor
, made the move to Russia
n football club Lokomotiv Moscow
in March 2006.
was based on a book by his son. Lockhart appeared in the series, portrayed by Ian Charleson
.
Order of St Michael and St George
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later George IV of the United Kingdom, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III....
(2 September 1887 – 27 February 1970), was a journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
, secret agent
Secret Agent
Secret Agent is a British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on two stories in Ashenden: Or the British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham. The film starred John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, and Robert Young...
, British
United Kingdom
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diplomat in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
and Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
, and footballer
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
. His 1932 book Memoirs of a British Agent became an international bestseller, and brought him to the world’s attention.
Background
Bruce Lockhart was born in AnstrutherAnstruther
Anstruther is a small town in Fife, Scotland. The two halves of Anstruther are divided by a small stream called Dreel Burn. Anstruther lies 9 miles south-southeast of St Andrews. It is the largest community on the stretch of north-shore coastline of the Firth of Forth known as the East Neuk,...
, Fife
Fife
Fife is a council area and former county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, the son of Robert Bruce Lockhart, the first headmaster of Spier’s School, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland. His mother was a Macgregor, while his other ancestors include Bruces, Hamiltons, Cummings, Wallaces and Douglases. He also claimed he could trace a connection back to Boswell of Auchinleck
Alexander Boswell (judge)
Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, 8th Laird of Auchinleck was a judge of the supreme courts of Scotland. He was the father of the author and biographer James Boswell, and grandfather of songwriter Sir Alexander Boswell....
. He once remarked, "There is no drop of English blood in my veins."
His family were mostly schoolmasters. His brother John Harold Bruce Lockhart
John Bruce-Lockhart
John Harold Bruce-Lockhart was a Scottish cricketer and schoolmaster from the famous Bruce-Lockhart family. His son Logie played Rugby Union for Scotland, while his brother Robert was a footballer. He was also the grandfather of Sandy and great-grandfather of Dugald Bruce Lockhart.-Early life:A...
was the headmaster of Sedbergh School
Sedbergh School
Sedbergh School is a boarding school in Sedbergh, Cumbria, for boys and girls aged 13 to 18. Nestled in the Howgill Fells, it is known for sporting sides, such as its Rugby Union 1st XV.-Background:...
, while his nephews Rab Bruce Lockhart
Rab Bruce Lockhart
Rab Brougham Bruce Lockhart was a Scottish rugby union player, who gained three caps for Scotland, and who played for Cambridge University R.U.F.C. and London Scottish FC....
and Logie Bruce Lockhart
Logie Bruce Lockhart
Logie Bruce Lockhart MA , is a British writer and journalist, formerly a Scottish international rugby union footballer and headmaster of Gresham's School.-Background:...
went on to become headmasters of Loretto
Loretto School
Loretto School is an independent school in Scotland, founded in 1827. The campus occupies in Musselburgh, near Edinburgh.-History:Loretto was founded by the Reverend Thomas Langhorne in 1827. Langhorne came from Crosby Ravensworth, near Kirkby Stephen. The school was later taken over by his son,...
and Gresham’s
Gresham's School
Gresham’s School is an independent coeducational boarding school in Holt in North Norfolk, England, a member of the HMC.The school was founded in 1555 by Sir John Gresham as a free grammar school for forty boys, following King Henry VIII's dissolution of the Augustinian priory at Beeston Regis...
. His great-nephew, Simon Bruce-Lockhart, is currently the headmaster of Glenlyon Norfolk School.
Bruce Lockhart went to school himself at Fettes College
Fettes College
Fettes College is an independent school for boarding and day pupils in Edinburgh, Scotland with over two thirds of its pupils in residence on campus...
in Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
.
Career
At the age of twenty-one, Bruce Lockhart went out to MalayaBritish Malaya
British Malaya loosely described a set of states on the Malay Peninsula and the Island of Singapore that were brought under British control between the 18th and the 20th centuries...
to join two uncles who were rubber planters
Plantation economy
A plantation economy is an economy which is based on agricultural mass production, usually of a few staple products grown on large farms called plantations. Plantation economies rely on the export of cash crops as a source of income...
there. According to his own account, he was sent to open up a new rubber estate near Pantai
Pantai
Pantai is a small town in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. Located about 10 kilometres from Seremban town. It is situated along Jalan Seremban-Kuala Klawang Pantai is a small town in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. Located about 10 kilometres from Seremban town. It is situated along Jalan Seremban-Kuala...
in Negeri Sembilan
Negeri Sembilan
Negeri Sembilan, one of the 13 states that constitutes Malaysia, lies on the western coast of Peninsular Malaysia, just south of Kuala Lumpur and borders Selangor on the north, Pahang in the east, and Malacca and Johor to the south....
, in a district where "there were no other white men". He then "caused a minor sensation by carrying off Amai, the beautiful ward of the Dato’ Klana, the local Malay prince… my first romance". However, three years in Malaya, and one with Amai, came to an end when "…doctors pronounced Malaria, but there were many people who said that I had been poisoned". One of his uncles and one of his cousins "bundled my emaciated body into a motor car and… packed me off home via Japan and America". The Dato’ Klana in question was the chief
Undang
An Undang is a ruling chief or territorial chief who still play an important role in the state of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. The name is believed to be derived from the Malay word undang-undang meaning law....
of Sungei Ujong, the most important of the Nine States of Negeri Sembilan, whose palace was at Ampangan
Ampangan
Ampangan is situated in between Paroi and the centre of Seremban. Ampangan is famous with its pasar malam on every Friday evening. People in the surrounding areas dubbed it as Pasar Malam Ampangan. According to some people the night market has been operating since 1970s. The night market offers...
.
Moscow posting
Bruce Lockhart next joined the British Foreign ServiceForeign and Commonwealth Office
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, commonly called the Foreign Office or the FCO is a British government department responsible for promoting the interests of the United Kingdom overseas, created in 1968 by merging the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Office.The head of the FCO is the...
and was posted to Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
as Vice-Consul.
At the time of his arrival in Russia, people had heard that a great footballer named Lockhart from Cambridge was arriving, and he was invited to turn out for Morozov a textile factory team that played their games 30 miles east of Moscow – the manager of the cotton mill was from Lancashire, England. Bruce Lockhart played for most of the 1912 season and won the Moscow league championship that year. The great player however was Robert’s brother, John, who had played rugby union for Scotland, and by his own admission Robert barely deserved his place in the team and played simply for the love of the sport.
Bruce Lockhart was Acting British Consul-General in Moscow when the first Russian Revolution
February Revolution
The February Revolution of 1917 was the first of two revolutions in Russia in 1917. Centered around the then capital Petrograd in March . Its immediate result was the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, the end of the Romanov dynasty, and the end of the Russian Empire...
broke out in early 1917, but left shortly before the Bolshevik Revolution
October Revolution
The October Revolution , also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution , Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution of 1917...
of October that year.
He soon returned to Russia at the behest of Prime Minister Lloyd George
David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC was a British Liberal politician and statesman...
and Lord Milner as the United Kingdom’s first envoy to the Bolsheviks (Russia) in January 1918 in an attempt to counteract German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
influence.
Lockhart, on his return, was also working for the Secret Intelligence Service
Secret Intelligence Service
The Secret Intelligence Service is responsible for supplying the British Government with foreign intelligence. Alongside the internal Security Service , the Government Communications Headquarters and the Defence Intelligence , it operates under the formal direction of the Joint Intelligence...
and had been given £648 worth of diamonds to fund the creation of an agent network in Russia.
Moura Budberg
Moura Budberg
Moura Zakrevskaya, variously Countess Benckendorff and Baroness Budberg was the daughter of Ignaty Platonovitch Zakrevsky , a Russian nobleman. She first married Count Johann von Benckendorff, a high-ranking Czarist diplomat, in 1911...
, the widow of a high-ranking Czarist diplomat Count Johann von Benckendorff, became his mistress.
Later, Bruce Lockhart spoke out for Arthur Ransome
Arthur Ransome
Arthur Michell Ransome was an English author and journalist, best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. These tell of school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. Many of the books involve sailing; other common subjects...
, saying he had been a valuable intelligence asset amid the worst chaos of the revolution. As the chaos worsened in Russia and purges took hold among the Bolshevik leaders, Lockhart recommended official assistance to bring Trotsky's secretary, Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina, to England.
Lockhart from then on was involved in numerous espionage plots against the Bolshevik government, including a plan to snatch Tsar Nicholas II from their custody.
Siberian Intervention
Bruce Lockhart was asked in March 1918 to persuade the new Soviet government to allow a Japanese army onto Soviet territory to fight GermanyGermany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
on the Eastern Front. He was unsuccessful in this endeavour.
Arrest and imprisonment
In 1918, Bruce Lockhart and fellow British agent, Sidney ReillySidney Reilly
Lieutenant Sidney George Reilly, MC , famously known as the Ace of Spies, was a Jewish Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard, the British Secret Service Bureau and later the Secret Intelligence Service . He is alleged to have spied for at least four nations...
, were dramatically implicated in a plot to assassinate
Assassination
To carry out an assassination is "to murder by a sudden and/or secret attack, often for political reasons." Alternatively, assassination may be defined as "the act of deliberately killing someone, especially a public figure, usually for hire or for political reasons."An assassination may be...
Bolshevik
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....
leader Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...
. He was accused of plotting against the Bolshevik regime and, for a time during 1918, was confined in the Kremlin
Kremlin
A kremlin , same root as in kremen is a major fortified central complex found in historic Russian cities. This word is often used to refer to the best-known one, the Moscow Kremlin, or metonymically to the government that is based there...
as a prisoner and feared being condemned to death. However, he escaped trial in an exchange of "secret agents
Espionage
Espionage or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, lest the legitimate holder of the information change plans or take other countermeasures once it...
" for the Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n diplomat
Diplomacy
Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states...
Maksim Maksimovich Litvinov.
He later wrote about his experiences in his 1932 autobiographical book, Memoirs of a British Agent which became an instant worldwide hit, and was made into the 1934 film British Agent
British Agent
British Agent is a 1934 espionage film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Leslie Howard and Kay Francis. It is based on Memoirs of a British Agent, the 1932 autobiography of R. H. Bruce Lockhart, who had spent a number of years working for the British Secret Service...
by Warner Brothers.
Second World War and after
During the Second World WarWorld War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, Lockhart became director-general of the Political Warfare Executive
Political Warfare Executive
During World War II, the Political Warfare Executive was a British clandestine body created to produce and disseminate both white and black propaganda, with the aim of damaging enemy morale and sustaining the morale of the Occupied countries....
, co-ordinating all British propaganda
Propaganda
Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself or one's group....
against the Axis powers
Axis Powers
The Axis powers , also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or just the Axis, was an alignment of great powers during the mid-20th century that fought World War II against the Allies. It began in 1936 with treaties of friendship between Germany and Italy and between Germany and...
. He was also for a time the British liaison officer to the Czechoslovak government-in-exile
Czechoslovak government-in-exile
The Czechoslovak government-in-exile was an informal title conferred upon the Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee, initially by British diplomatic recognition. The name came to be used by other World War II Allies as they subsequently recognized it...
under President Edvard Beneš
Edvard Beneš
Edvard Beneš was a leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the second President of Czechoslovakia. He was known to be a skilled diplomat.- Youth :...
.
After the war, he resumed his writing career, as well as lecturing and broadcasting, and made a weekly BBC Radio
BBC Radio
BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927. For a history of BBC radio prior to 1927 see British Broadcasting Company...
broadcast to Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
for over ten years.
Personal life
Lockhart was the father of author Robin Bruce LockhartRobin Bruce Lockhart
Robin Bruce Lockhart was a British author.The son of the British spy R. H. Bruce Lockhart, he wrote the 1967 book Ace of Spies about the super-spy Sidney Reilly, which was made into a 1983 television miniseries Reilly: Ace of Spies, starring Sam Neill...
, who wrote the 1967 book Ace of Spies — about his father’s friend and fellow agent Sidney Reilly
Sidney Reilly
Lieutenant Sidney George Reilly, MC , famously known as the Ace of Spies, was a Jewish Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard, the British Secret Service Bureau and later the Secret Intelligence Service . He is alleged to have spied for at least four nations...
— from which the 1983 miniseries Reilly, Ace of Spies
Reilly, Ace of Spies
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies to ever work for the British. Among his exploits in the early 20th century were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of...
was produced.
Lockhart died in 1970 at the age of 83, but tales of his adventures in Moscow have recently returned to the public eye when Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
professional footballer
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
Garry O’Connor
Garry O'Connor
Garry Lawrence John O'Connor is a Scottish professional footballer who currently plays for Hibernian. He has also played for the Scotland international team....
, made the move to Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n football club Lokomotiv Moscow
FC Lokomotiv Moscow
The following years were rather successful as Lokomotiv were consistent in the national championships. However, performances after World War II suffered and actually in the space of five year Lokomotiv were relegated to the Soviet First League twice. In 1951, Lokomotiv came second and eventually...
in March 2006.
Books
- Memoirs of a British Agent (Putnam, London, 1932)
- Retreat from Glory (Putnam, London, 1934)
- Return to Malaya (Putnam, London, 1936)
- My Scottish Youth (Putnam, London, 1937)
- Guns or Butter: War countries and peace countries of Europe revisited (Putnam, London, 1938)
- A Son of Scotland (Putnam, London, 1938)
- What Happened to the Czechs? (Batchworth Press, London, 1953)
- Comes the Reckoning (Putnam, London, 1947)
- My Rod, My Comfort (Putnam, London, 1949)
- The Marines Were There: the Story of the Royal Marines in the Second World War (Putnam, London, 1950)
- Scotch: the Whisky of Scotland in Fact and Story (Putnam, London, 1951)
- My Europe (Putnam, London, 1952)
- Your England (Putnam, London, 1955)
- Jan Masaryk, a Personal Memoir (Putnam, London, 1956)
- Friends, Foes, and Foreigners (Putnam, London, 1957)
- The Two Revolutions: an Eyewitness Study of Russia, 1917 (Bodley Head, London, 1967)
- The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart Vol 1 (Macmillan, London, 1973)
- The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart Vol 2 (Macmillan, London, 1980)
In TV drama
The 1983 British television series Reilly, Ace of SpiesReilly, Ace of Spies
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies to ever work for the British. Among his exploits in the early 20th century were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of...
was based on a book by his son. Lockhart appeared in the series, portrayed by Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson was a Scottish stage and film actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell, in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. He is also well known for his portrayal of Rev...
.
See also
- List of Scottish cricket and rugby union players
- Logie Bruce LockhartLogie Bruce LockhartLogie Bruce Lockhart MA , is a British writer and journalist, formerly a Scottish international rugby union footballer and headmaster of Gresham's School.-Background:...
(son of R. H. Bruce Lockhart’s brother, J. H. Bruce Lockhart) - Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-LockhartSandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-LockhartAlexander John Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart, OBE , commonly known as Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, was a British Conservative politician and a senior figure in English local government. He was the leader of Kent County Council and then Chairman of the Local Government Association...
(grandson of R. H. Bruce Lockhart’s brother, J. H. Bruce Lockhart) - Dugald Bruce LockhartDugald Bruce LockhartDugald Bruce Lockhart is an Anglo-Scottish actor.-Background and education:Dugald Bruce Lockhart was born in 1968. His great-grandfather, J.H. Bruce Lockhart, and his great-uncles, Rab Bruce Lockhart and Logie Bruce Lockhart were all public school headmasters and all played rugby union for...
(great-great-nephew)