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He was born in [[Anstruther]], Fife, the son of Robert Bruce-Lockhart, the first headmaster of [[Spier's School]], Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland. His mother was Florence Stuart Macgregor, while his other ancestors include Bruces, Hamiltons, Cummings, Wallaces and Douglases. He claimed he could trace a connection back to [[Alexander Boswell (judge)|Boswell of Auchinleck]]. In ''Memoirs of a British Agent'', he wrote, ''"There is no drop of English blood in my veins."'' He attended [[Fettes College]] in Edinburgh.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bruce Lockhart|first1=Robert|title=My Scottish Youth|date=1993|publisher=B&W Publishing|location=Edinburgh|isbn=1 873631 26 X|pages=313–353}}</ref>
His family were mostly schoolmasters. His brother [[John Bruce-Lockhart|John Harold Bruce Lockhart]] was the headmaster of [[Sedbergh School]], while his nephews [[Rab Bruce Lockhart]] and [[Logie Bruce Lockhart]] went on to become headmasters of [[Loretto School|Loretto]] and [[Gresham's School|Gresham's]]. His great-nephew, Simon Bruce-Lockhart, is headmaster of Glenlyon Norfolk School.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lundy|first=Darryl|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p19821.htm#i198210|title=John Harold Bruce-Lockhart profile|publisher=
==Career==
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===First Moscow posting===
Bruce Lockhart next joined the British [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office|Foreign Service]] and was posted to Moscow as Vice-Consul. At the time of his arrival in Russia, people had heard that a great footballer named Lockhart from Cambridge was arriving, and he was invited to turn out for Morozov a textile factory team that played their games 30 miles east of Moscow – the manager of the cotton mill was from Lancashire, England. Bruce Lockhart played for most of the 1912 season and his team won the Moscow league championship that year. The gold medal he won is in the collection of the [[National Library of Scotland]].<ref name="BBCSport">{{cite web|last=Moffat|first=Colin|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/4764284.stm|title=BBC SPORT: "O'Connor not first Scot in Moscow"|publisher=BBC News|date=8 March 2006|accessdate=13 September 2012}}</ref> The great player however was Robert's brother, John, who had played rugby union for Scotland, and by his own admission Robert barely deserved his place in the team and played simply for the love of the sport.<ref name="Memoirs1932"/>
Bruce Lockhart was British Consul-General in Moscow when the [[February Revolution|first Russian Revolution]] broke out in early 1917, but left shortly before the [[October Revolution|Bolshevik Revolution]] of October that year.
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==Death==
Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, died in 1970 at the age of 82.<ref
==Honours==
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