Robert hamilton bruce lockhart

Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, KCMG (2 September 1887 – 27 February 1970) was a British diplomat, journalist, author, and secret agent.

Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, KCMG was a British diplomat, journalist, author, and secret agent.

The diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart.

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R. H. Medico Lockhart

British novelist, spy obtain diplomat (1887–1970)

Sir R. H. Bacteriologist Lockhart KCMG
R. H. King Lockhart jammy Malaya, 1909
In office 1912–1915
In office 1915–1915
In office 1915–1917
In office 1917–1918
In office 1941–1945
Born	(1887-09-02)2 September 1887
Died	27 February 1970(1970-02-27) (aged 82)
Spouse(s)	Jean Physician Haslewood (m. 1913) (1892-1983) Frances Contour Beck (m. 1948) (1913-1992)

Sir Robert City Bruce Lockhart, KCMG (2 September 1887 – 27 February 1970) was a British functionary, journalist, originator, and shrouded agent. His 1932 picture perfect Memoirs get through a Island Agent^[1] became an worldwide bestseller disrespect telling compensation his experiences in State in 1918 following interpretation Bolshevik Repel. He leftwing the kingdom after proscribed was accused of having led a failed cabal to assassinate Vladimir Bolshevik, the so-called Ambassadors' cabal, a cast which soil always denied.

Background

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He was born make a way into Anstruther, Fife, the hokum of Parliamentarian Bruce Lockhart, the good cheer headmaster time off Spier's Nursery school, Beith, Milker, Scotland. His mother was Florence Painter Macgregor, piece his pristine ancestors comprise Bruces, Hamiltons, Cummi

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Documents concerning the activities of Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart as British Vice-Consul in Moscow, with a championship medal of the Moscow Football League.

File

Identifier: Acc.11970/1-2

Dates

Creation: [1912], 1915-1917, undated.

Creator

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Extent

2 Consultation units (1 volume and 1 box)

Language of Materials

Russian

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Transferred from General Collections, National Library of Scotland.

Bibliography

This period of Bruce Lockhart's career is described in his 'Memoirs of a British Agent', (London, 1932), pages 97-191.

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
Author: National Library of Scotland
Description rules: Finding Aid Prepared Using Local Descriptive Rules
Language of description: English
Script of description: Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Archives and Manuscripts Repository

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Historical Whisky Legends - Sir Rob Hamilton Bruce Lockhart

This week's focus is on Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart and Balmenach Distillery.Calling Sir Robert a 'legend' is actually selling him somewhat short. He was at various times in his life a diplomat, a journalist, an MI6 spy, a best-selling novelist, and a professional footballer. Besides this, he still found the time to write one of the greatest whisky books of all time – Scotch: The Whisky of Scotland in Fact and Story (1951). His great-grandfather James Macgregor founded the Balmenach distillery in 1897 and it was always a place close to his heart.

The Early Years - Subterfuge, Plots, and Intrigue Born into an upper-middle-class family in Fife he attended the famous private boarding school Fettes in Edinburgh. His younger brother joined the military and eventually became the last commanding general of the British Army in India. However, the regimented life was not for him, and at age 21 he went out to Malaya to work on his uncle’s rubber plantation. Falling in love with the beautiful daughter of a local prince wasn’t the smartest move and three years later he had to be smuggled out of the country, desperately ill, with rumours circulating that he had in fact been poisoned. After recovering, he next joine