Rab Bruce Lockhart
Birth name | Rab Brougham Bruce Lockhart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 1 December 1916 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Rugby, Warwickshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 1 May 1990 | (aged 73)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Burneside, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable relative(s) | John Bruce Lockhart, father Logie Bruce Lockhart, brother Patrick Bruce Lockhart, brother R. H. Bruce Lockhart, uncle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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 side in the trial match against . 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[]
Bruce Lockhart played for the Scotland national cricket team[5] and was asked to play for Canada but unable to do so. He played three first-class matches for Cambridge University Cricket Club in the 1937 and 1938 seasons with little success and did not play in The University Match.[6]
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.[7]
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[8] 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,[9] 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[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b player profile on scrum.com Retrieved 16 February 2010
- ^ "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)
- ^ Bath, p 138
- ^ "Register | British Newspaper Archive". www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Bath, p 104
- ^ "Rab Bruce-Lockhart". Espncricinfo. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ "History of Loretto". Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ Bath, p. 139
- ^ Burke's Peerage volume 1 (2003), p. 556
- Sources
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007; ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)
- 1916 births
- 1990 deaths
- Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Bruce Lockhart family
- Scottish educational theorists
- Scottish rugby union players
- Scotland international rugby union players
- Cambridge University R.U.F.C. players
- Cambridge University cricketers
- People educated at Sedbergh School
- Disease-related deaths in England
- Sportspeople from Yorkshire
- London Scottish F.C. players
- Scotland Probables players
- Scotland Possibles players
- Scottish cricketers