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, where his father was headmaster and he became head boy, then at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, before military service in the Second World War.[1] After the war he went to St John's College, Cambridge, as a choral student, later winning a scholarship.[2] At Cambridge, he read modern languages and won the Wright Prize for Modern Languages and was both a rugby union and a squash Blue.[1] He holds the degree of MA.[2]
[edit] Military Service
Between Sandhurst and Cambridge, he saw active service with the British Army during World War II. He was first commissioned into the Sherwood Foresters and later served in the Household Cavalry.[2] He was one of the first British soldiers to enter Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.[1]
[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.[3][4]
[edit] Schoolmaster
Bruce Lockhart became an assistant schoolmaster (and rugby union coach) at Tonbridge School[4], then in 1955, at the age of 34, he was appointed as headmaster of Gresham's School, Holt, retiring in 1982.[2]
After becoming chairman of the Headmasters' Conference Eastern Division in the 1970s, he broke new ground by inviting the heads of the Girls' Schools Association to attend HMC meetings.[1]
[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)[2] is about his adventures as a fly fisherman, mostly in England and Scotland.[5]
His book Stuff and Nonsense[2] 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’.[6]
[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] Family
Logie Bruce Lockhart married Josephine Agnew in 1944, and they had two sons and three daughters.[2] One daughter was killed in a road accident in childhood.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d 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
- ^ a b c d e f g Bruce Lockhart, Logie in Who's Who 2006 (A & C Black, London, 2006) ISBN 978-0713671643
- ^ Logie Bruce Lockhart at scrum.com
- ^ a b 1949 XV REUNION at Oldtonbridgians.org
- ^ The Pleasures of Fishing at amazon.com
- ^ Stuff and Nonsense at booksatlarkspress.co.uk
