Logie Bruce Lockhart

Logie Bruce Lockhart (12 October 1921 – 7 September 2020) was a Scottish schoolmaster, writer, and journalist, in his youth a Scottish international rugby union footballer and for most of his teaching career headmaster of Gresham's School. Background Lockhart belonged to the Bruce Lockhart family, which has long traditions of teaching and playing rugby union and has branched out into other areas. His grandfather was a schoolmaster, while his father, John Bruce Lockhart, and one of his older brothers, Rab Bruce Lockhart, were both public school headmasters who had played rugby union for Scotland. Another brother, J. M. Bruce Lockhart, was an intelligence officer, and a third brother, Patrick, was an obstetrician who fenced for Scotland. Lockhart’s uncle, Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart (1887–1970), was an author and adventurer whose son, Robin Bruce Lockhart, became an author. One nephew was Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart; another, Kim Bruce-Lockhart, played squash for Scotland. A great-nephew, Dugald, is an actor and director. Early life Lockhart was educated at Cargilfield School, Edinburgh, Sedbergh School, where his father was Headmaster and he became Head Boy, and then at St John's College, Cambridge, as a choral scholar, with a scholarship. However, with the Second World War just beginning he enlisted in the 9th Sherwood Foresters. Later during the war he served in the Life Guards in France and Germany and was one of the first British soldiers to enter Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.