Logie Bruce Lockhart
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Logie Bruce Lockhart MA (Cantab.), (born 12 October 1921) is a British writer and journalist, formerly a Scottish international rugby union footballer and headmaster of Gresham's School.
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[edit] Background
Bruce Lockhart belongs to a family with long traditions of teaching and playing rugby union which has branched out into other areas. His father and his older brother, J.H. Bruce Lockhart and Rab Bruce Lockhart, were both public school headmasters, and his grandfather was also a schoolmaster. His father and brother Rab also both played rugby union for Scotland. His uncle, Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, was an author and adventurer whose son Robin Bruce Lockhart is also an author. Another of LBL’s nephews, Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart is a politician, while his great-nephew Dugald Bruce-Lockhart is an actor.
[edit] Education
Bruce Lockhart was educated at Sedbergh School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a rugby union Blue. At Cambridge, he read Modern Languages and holds the degree of MA.
[edit] Military Service
Between Sedbergh and Cambridge, he saw active service with the British Army during World War II. He was first commissioned into the Sherwood Foresters.
[edit] Rugby Footballer
After playing rugby union for Cambridge University, Bruce Lockhart went on to play for Scotland between 1948 and 1953, mostly at scrum-half. His first and last international games were both against England, on 20 March 1948 and 21 March 1953.
[edit] Schoolmaster
Bruce Lockhart became an assistant schoolmaster (and rugby union coach) at Tonbridge School, then in 1955, at the age of 34, he was appointed as headmaster of Gresham's School, Holt, retiring in 1982.
[edit] Journalist
For fifty years, Bruce Lockhart has contributed articles to a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, from Country Life and Rugby World to She. He writes mostly on education, fishing, sport and wildlife.
[edit] Author
Bruce Lockhart’s book The Pleasures of Fishing (1981) is about his adventures as a fly fisherman, mostly in England and Scotland.
His book Stuff and Nonsense gives the philosophy of a retired headmaster. The educational topics of the last half century are the ‘Stuff’, while a variety of essays on rugby, fly fishing, camping in old age, wind-surfing in France and so forth are the ‘Nonsense’.
[edit] Books
- The Pleasures of Fishing (A & C Black, London, 1981) ISBN 0713621362
- Stuff and Nonsense: Observations of a Norfolk Scot (The Larks Press, 1981) ISBN 0 948400 40 4
[edit] References
- Logie Bruce Lockhart at scrum.com
- Stuff and Nonsense at Larks Press
- The Pleasures of Fishing
- Children should stay at school till 5.30pm by Logie Bruce Lockhart
- Old Tonbridgians
- Gresham's School
- I Will Plant Me a Tree: an Illustrated History of Gresham's School by S.G.G. Benson and Martin Crossley Evans (James & James, London, 2002) ISBN 0-907383-92-0
- Who's Who 2006 (A & C Black, London, 2006) ISBN 978-0713671643
