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Logie Bruce Lockhart


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.

Logie 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, John Bruce Lockhart and Rab Bruce Lockhart, respectively, were both public school headmasters, and his grandfather was a schoolmaster. His father and brother Rab both played rugby union for Scotland. His uncle, Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart (1887–1970), was an author and adventurer whose son, Robin Bruce Lockhart, is an author. Another nephew is Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart, while a great-nephew Dugald is an actor.

Logie Lockhart was educated at Cargilfield School, Edinburgh,Sedbergh School, where his father was headmaster and he became head boy, then at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, before military service in the Second World War. After the war he went to St John's College, Cambridge, as a choral student, later winning a scholarship. At Cambridge, he read modern languages and won the Wright Prize for Modern Languages and was both a rugby union and a squash Blue. He holds the degree of MA.


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