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'''James Robert Bruce Lockhart''' (1941 – 20 March 2018) was a British diplomat, intelligence officer, author, and artist.
==Life==
Born at [[Sedbergh]], [[Yorkshire]], in March 1941, Lockart was the son of [[J. M. Bruce Lockhart]] (1914–1995), by his marriage in 1939 to Margaret Hone, a daughter of [[Campbell Hone]], [[Bishop of Wakefield]], and was educated at the [[Dragon School]], [[Oxford]],<ref name=suffolkartists>[http://bit.ly/2V3sqOT BRUCE-LOCKHART, Jamie] at suffolkartists.co.uk, accessed 29 April 2019</ref> and [[Sedbergh School]].<ref name=times/>
His father was a [[schoolmaster]], headmaster of Sedbergh School, and then a wartime intelligence officer who became deputy director of [[MI6]], not to mention a brother of [[R. H. Bruce Lockhart|Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart]], British diplomat and intelligence officer, who had been closely connected with [[Sidney Reilly]] at the time of the [[October Revolution]] in Russia, later writing the best-selling ''Memoirs of a British Agent''. With a long history of [[espionage]] in [[Bruce Lockhart family|his family]], it was natural for the young James Bruce Lockhart to have the ambition of following in their footsteps, and he did.<ref name=times>[http://bit.ly/2GFXJFJ "James Bruce-Lockhart, Intelligence officer from a family of spies"] (obituary) in ''[[The Times]]'' dated 5 December 2018, accessed 29 April 2019 </ref>
After graduating in 1963, Lockhart became a diplomat and intelligence officer, and on his hidden career he later had little to say, except that he had followed a similar path to that of [[John Le Carré]] in Germany.<ref name=times/> However, an obituary in ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' stated that his "ostensible career in the Foreign Office masked his real work with the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)".<ref>[http://bit.ly/2V3mrtB "Last words: Robert Morris and James Bruce‑Lockhart"] in ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' dated 9 December 2018, accessed 29 April 2019 </ref>
While posted to [[Lagos]] in the late 1980s, he read [[Hugh Clapperton]]'s ''Journal of a Second Expedition'', published posthumously in 1829, and was inspired to make the same cross-country expedition from the Atlantic coast to the desert and from [[Lake Chad]] to [[Borgu]]. He also studied the route [[Richard Lander]] had taken when making his way back to the coast after Clapperton’s death. This eventually led Lockhart to write a life of Hugh Clapperton, finally published in 2007, and he went on to write other books.<ref name=times/>
Reviewing his two books on Clapperton, [[Anthony Kirk-Greene]] said in ''The Journal of African History'' "James Bruce-Lockhart has made a significant archival addition to our knowledge of the literary legacy of Hugh Clapperton".<ref>Anthony Kirk-Greene, [http://bit.ly/2GAqvY0 "CLAPPERTON'S DIARIES" in ''The Journal of African History'' Vol. 42, No. 1 (2001), pp. 127-129 </ref>
In retirement, Lockhart settled at [[Southwold]] and then [[Saxmundham]], in [[Suffolk]], and was notable as a watercolour artist, with several solo exhibitions, signing his work J. R. Bruce Lockhart.<ref name=suffolkartists/>
==Private life==
In 1967 Lockhart married Felicity A. Smith at [[Kensington]]. Their son [[Dugald Bruce Lockhart]], who became an actor, was born while they were on a posting in [[Fiji]] in 1968.<ref name=times/>
He was the older brother of [[Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart]] (1942–2008), and they also had one sister.<ref name=times/>
==Selected publications==
*James R. Bruce Lockhart, ''Clapperton in Borno: Journals of the Travels in Borno of Lieutenant Hugh Clapperton RN, from January 1823 to September 1824'' (Cologne, 1996)
*James R. Bruce-Lockhart, John Wright, ''Difficult and Dangerous Roads: Hugh Clapperton's Travels in Sahara and Fezzan 1822–1825'' (London: Sickle Moon Books, 2000)
==Notes==
[[Category:1941 births]]
[[Category:2018 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century British diplomats]]
[[Category:Bruce Lockhart family]]
[[Category:People educated at The Dragon School]]
[[Category:People educated at Sedbergh School]]
==Life==
Born at [[Sedbergh]], [[Yorkshire]], in March 1941, Lockart was the son of [[J. M. Bruce Lockhart]] (1914–1995), by his marriage in 1939 to Margaret Hone, a daughter of [[Campbell Hone]], [[Bishop of Wakefield]], and was educated at the [[Dragon School]], [[Oxford]],<ref name=suffolkartists>[http://bit.ly/2V3sqOT BRUCE-LOCKHART, Jamie] at suffolkartists.co.uk, accessed 29 April 2019</ref> and [[Sedbergh School]].<ref name=times/>
His father was a [[schoolmaster]], headmaster of Sedbergh School, and then a wartime intelligence officer who became deputy director of [[MI6]], not to mention a brother of [[R. H. Bruce Lockhart|Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart]], British diplomat and intelligence officer, who had been closely connected with [[Sidney Reilly]] at the time of the [[October Revolution]] in Russia, later writing the best-selling ''Memoirs of a British Agent''. With a long history of [[espionage]] in [[Bruce Lockhart family|his family]], it was natural for the young James Bruce Lockhart to have the ambition of following in their footsteps, and he did.<ref name=times>[http://bit.ly/2GFXJFJ "James Bruce-Lockhart, Intelligence officer from a family of spies"] (obituary) in ''[[The Times]]'' dated 5 December 2018, accessed 29 April 2019 </ref>
After graduating in 1963, Lockhart became a diplomat and intelligence officer, and on his hidden career he later had little to say, except that he had followed a similar path to that of [[John Le Carré]] in Germany.<ref name=times/> However, an obituary in ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' stated that his "ostensible career in the Foreign Office masked his real work with the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)".<ref>[http://bit.ly/2V3mrtB "Last words: Robert Morris and James Bruce‑Lockhart"] in ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' dated 9 December 2018, accessed 29 April 2019 </ref>
While posted to [[Lagos]] in the late 1980s, he read [[Hugh Clapperton]]'s ''Journal of a Second Expedition'', published posthumously in 1829, and was inspired to make the same cross-country expedition from the Atlantic coast to the desert and from [[Lake Chad]] to [[Borgu]]. He also studied the route [[Richard Lander]] had taken when making his way back to the coast after Clapperton’s death. This eventually led Lockhart to write a life of Hugh Clapperton, finally published in 2007, and he went on to write other books.<ref name=times/>
Reviewing his two books on Clapperton, [[Anthony Kirk-Greene]] said in ''The Journal of African History'' "James Bruce-Lockhart has made a significant archival addition to our knowledge of the literary legacy of Hugh Clapperton".<ref>Anthony Kirk-Greene, [http://bit.ly/2GAqvY0 "CLAPPERTON'S DIARIES" in ''The Journal of African History'' Vol. 42, No. 1 (2001), pp. 127-129 </ref>
In retirement, Lockhart settled at [[Southwold]] and then [[Saxmundham]], in [[Suffolk]], and was notable as a watercolour artist, with several solo exhibitions, signing his work J. R. Bruce Lockhart.<ref name=suffolkartists/>
==Private life==
In 1967 Lockhart married Felicity A. Smith at [[Kensington]]. Their son [[Dugald Bruce Lockhart]], who became an actor, was born while they were on a posting in [[Fiji]] in 1968.<ref name=times/>
He was the older brother of [[Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart]] (1942–2008), and they also had one sister.<ref name=times/>
==Selected publications==
*James R. Bruce Lockhart, ''Clapperton in Borno: Journals of the Travels in Borno of Lieutenant Hugh Clapperton RN, from January 1823 to September 1824'' (Cologne, 1996)
*James R. Bruce-Lockhart, John Wright, ''Difficult and Dangerous Roads: Hugh Clapperton's Travels in Sahara and Fezzan 1822–1825'' (London: Sickle Moon Books, 2000)
==Notes==
[[Category:1941 births]]
[[Category:2018 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century British diplomats]]
[[Category:Bruce Lockhart family]]
[[Category:People educated at The Dragon School]]
[[Category:People educated at Sedbergh School]]
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