John Bruce Lockhart

'''John Harold "J.H." Bruce Lockhart''' (4 March 1889 – 4 June 1956) was a Scotland international cricket player; and a Scotland international rugby union player. He became a schoolmaster. He was part of the noted Bruce Lockhart family. He was also an artist.

Early life and education
Lockhart was born in Beith, North Ayrshire on 4 March 1889, the son of Robert Bruce Lockhart, headmaster (and founder) of Spier's School, Beith, since 1888, by his marriage to Florence Stuart Macgregor.

In 1895 his father moved on from Spier's School to Seafield House at Broughty Ferry, a new school he founded. Lockhart senior subsequently became headmaster of Eagle House School near Sandhurst, and J. H. Bruce Lockhart was sent to Sedbergh School, where he was head of house and captain of the school's association football and cricket teams. After Sedbergh, he went on to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read the modern languages Tripos and graduated with a second-class degree.

Amateur career
Beginning his education at Spier's School, Lockhart was introduced to rugby union, association football and cricket.

He played cricket for Cambridge University, for whom he took over one hundred wickets. At Cambridge, he was a double Blue, for rugby union and cricket.

International career
Lockhart appeared twice for Scotland at first-class cricket level, against Ireland in 1910 and an All India side in 1911. In the match against Ireland he took eleven wickets, including six for 76 in the second innings.

Amateur career
He played for London Scottish.

Provincial career
He played for Scotland Possibles on 18 January 1913.

International career
He was an international rugby footballer, representing Scotland as a fly half.

Teaching Career
Lockhart became an assistant master at Rugby School in 1912. After the war, he returned to his teaching career at Rugby and became a housemaster there in 1923. In 1930 he was appointed as Headmaster of Cargilfield Preparatory School, and in 1937 moved on to become head of his old school, Sedbergh, where he remained until he retired in 1954.

Military career
During the First World War, he served in France in the Intelligence Corps with the British Expeditionary Force and was mentioned in despatches.

Family
In 1913, J. H. Bruce Lockhart married (Alwine) Mona, the daughter of Henry Brougham, formerly a schoolmaster at Wellington College, and they had four sons. These were the headmaster and intelligence officer J. M. Bruce Lockhart (1914–1995), the obstetrician Patrick Bruce Lockhart (1918–2009), and the headmasters and Scottish international rugby union players Rab (1916–1990) and Logie Bruce Lockhart (1921–2020).

His son Logie played rugby union for Scotland, while his brother Robert was a footballer. He was also the grandfather of Lord Bruce-Lockhart and great-grandfather of actor Dugald Bruce Lockhart.

John Bruce Lockhart was an accomplished amateur artist, a member of the Lake Artists Society who exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. He became a member of the Scottish Committee of the Arts Council and was a governor of Welbeck College, a member of the Council of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, and a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.