Rab Bruce Lockhart

Rab Brougham Bruce Lockhart (1 December 1916 – 1 May 1990) was a Scotland international rugby union player.[1] He also represented Scotland at cricket. He later took up a teaching career.

Not to be confused with R. H. Bruce Lockhart.

Rab Bruce Lockhart
Birth nameRab Brougham Bruce Lockhart
Date of birth(1916-12-01)1 December 1916
Place of birthRugby, Warwickshire, England
Date of death1 May 1990(1990-05-01) (aged 73)
Place of deathBurneside, England
Notable relative(s)John Bruce Lockhart, father
Logie Bruce Lockhart, brother
Patrick Bruce Lockhart, brother
R. H. Bruce Lockhart, uncle
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fly half
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
- Cambridge University
London Scottish		 ()
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
1938
1938		 Scotland Probables
Scotland Possibles		 ()
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
1937-39 Scotland 3 (0)

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He attended Sedbergh School and Edinburgh Academy, and studied Modern Languages at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[2] While at Cambridge he played rugby union for Cambridge University.[3]

After university Bruce Lockhart played for London Scottish.

Provincial career

He was then selected for the Scotland Probables side in the trial match against Scotland Possibles. The first trial on 18 December 1937 fell foul of the weather, but Bruce Lockhart turned out for Probables on 15 January 1938. However it was a strange match and the selectors confused many onlookers by using a variety of substitutes, at the time uncommon; and Bruce Lockhart himself switched sides in the second half to play for the Possibles side.[4]

International career

He gained three caps for Scotland between 1937 and 1939.[1][5]

Cricket career

He played for the Scotland national cricket team[5] and was asked to play for Canada but unable to do so.

Teaching career

He taught in Canada from 1950 to 1954, then was headmaster of Wanganui Collegiate School, New Zealand, from 1954 to 1960 and of Loretto School from 1960 to 1976.[6]

Family

Lockhart was a member of the well-established Bruce Lockhart family. His father, John, was both a rugby and cricket international for Scotland and headmaster of Sedbergh School. His brother Logie was also a Scottish rugby international[7] and headmaster. Two other brothers were John Bruce-Lockhart, Deputy Director of MI6, and Patrick, an obstetrician. An uncle, Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, was a notable rugby footballer, spy, and journalist, whose son Robin wrote Reilly, Ace of Spies. Lord Bruce-Lockhart was his nephew.

Lockhart married Helen Priscilla Lawrence Crump,[8] and they had a daughter, Karen Bruce Lockhart, and two sons, Kim and Malcolm.

Death

Bruce-Lockhart died at his home in Burneside, Cumbria, England, in 1990, aged 73, from a heart attack.

References
  1. player profile on scrum.com retrieved 16 February 2010
  2. "BRUCE LOCKHART, Rab Brougham". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 2018 (online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  3. Bath, p 138
  4. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19380117/066/0004
  5. Bath, p 104
  6. "History of Loretto". Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  7. Bath, p. 139
  8. Burke's Peerage volume 1 (2003), p. 556
Sources
  1. Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007; ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
  2. Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)
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