R. H. Bruce Lockhart

Lockhart, Robert Hamilton Bruce

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Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart was born in Anstruther, Fife, Scotland, the son of Robert Bruce Lockhart and Florence Stuart Macgregor. At age 21, he went to Malaya to open an additional rubber estate for two of his uncles who were rubber planters in the country. After three years, he was diagnosed with malaria, and returned to Scotland. He joined the Foreign Service and was stationed in Moscow as Vice-Consul. In 1913 he married Jean Haslewood Turner, daughter of Leonard Turner. He was Acting British Consul-General in Moscow when the first Russian Revolution broke out in early 1917. He left before the Bolshevik Revolution, but returned in 1918 to try to persuade the Soviet government to aid in fighting Germany, and was arrested and accused of plotting to assassinate Vladimir Lenin. He was sentenced to death, but was spared in a prisoner exchange. In 1932 he published a book, Memoirs of a British Agent, about his experiences in Moscow. He published several memoirs in the period between the wars. Also during this time, in 1938, he and his wife divorced. During World War II, he was director-general of the Political Warfare Executive, which produced British propaganda. He also served as the British liaison officer to the Czechoslovak government-in-exile under President Edvard Beneš. In 1943 he was invested as a Knight Commander, Order of St. Michael and St. George (K.C.M.G.). After the war, he resumed his writing career. He was also a broadcaster with the BBC. In 1948 he married Frances Mary Beck, daughter of Maj.-Gen. E. A. Beck.

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A Son of Scotland
Representative edition published 2007
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Retreat from glory
Representative edition published 2005
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Scotch
Representative edition published 1995
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The Diaries
Representative edition published 1981
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Memoirs of a British agent
Representative edition published 1974
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The diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart
Representative edition published 1973
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Comes the reckoning
Representative edition published 1972
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The two revolutions
Representative edition published 1967
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Friends, foes, and foreigners
Representative edition published 1957
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My Europe
Representative edition published 1952
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Jan Masaryk, a personal memoir
Representative edition published 1951
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Guns or butter
Representative edition published 1938
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Return to Malaya
Representative edition published 1936
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British agent
Representative edition published 1933
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Running Christian Groups in Secondary Schools
Representative edition published 1999
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My Scottish Youth
Representative edition published 1993
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Britský agent
Representative edition published 1973
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Giants Cast Long Shadows
Representative edition published 1960
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My rod my comfort
Representative edition published 1957
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Your England
Representative edition published 1955
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What happened to the Czechs?
Representative edition published 1953
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Ústup z Prahy
Representative edition published 1952
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Jan Masaryk
Representative edition published 1952
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Scotch, the whisky of Scotland in fact and story
Representative edition published 1951
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