RH Bruce Lockhart

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Robert Lockhart (1909)

Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart KCMG (born September 2, 1887 in Anstruther , † February 27, 1970 ) was a British diplomat .

Life

Lockhart was the son of Robert Bruce Lockhart, a principal at Spier's School, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland. He spent his school days at Fettes College in Edinburgh . In 1908 Lockhart joined two uncles who ran rubber plantations in Malaya and opened a rubber plantation near Pantai in Negeri Sembilan . Lockhart entered the foreign service in 1911 and became viceconsul in Moscow. In Moscow he had the reputation of a good Cambridge football player. The manager of a cotton mill 30 miles east of Moscow in Lancashire, he was recruited for the operating team that won the 1912 Moscow championship.

During the February Revolution of 1917 he was the acting Consul General in Moscow and before the October Revolution he had left Russia. In January 1918, during the government of David Lloyd George , he was sent to the Bolshevik government in Moscow. In March 1918 he tried to get a corridor for a Japanese army through the area controlled by the Red Army in order to reopen an eastern front against the German Reich. When the Bolshevik government signed the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty on March 3, 1918 , the British envoy tried to poison Lenin and free members of the tsarist family . He was arrested with Sidney Reilly and exchanged for Maxim Maximowitsch Litvinow .

From November 19, 1919 he was second class trade secretary at the embassy in Prague .

In 1932 he published his autobiography Memoires of a British Agent , which was made into a film two years later under the title British Agent .

During the Second World War he was a member of the steering committee of the Political Warfare Executive and was a liaison to Edvard Beneš from 1940 to 1941 . On January 1, 1943 he was by Georg VI. inducted into the Order of St. Michael and St. George .

From 1945 to 1955, the British Broadcasting Corporation broadcast a weekly radio program produced with him for the population of Czechoslovakia .

The conservative politician Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart , was a grandson of Bruce Lockhart.

literature

  • Lockhart, RH Bruce: As a diplomat, banker, and journalist in post-war Europe. German publishing company, Stuttgart / Berlin 1935

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 31802, HMSO, London, November 19, 1919, p. 2454 ( PDF , accessed October 22, 2013, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 35841, HMSO, London, January 1, 1943, p. 5 ( PDF , accessed October 22, 2013, English).
predecessor Office successor
George William Buchanan British Ambassador to the Soviet Union in
1918 		Robert Hodgson
Basil Cochrane Newton British ambassador to Czechoslovakia
1940–1941 		Frank Kenyon Roberts
personal data
SURNAME Lockhart, Bruce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lockhart, Robert Hamilton Bruce (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Anstruther
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1970