John Bruce-Lockhart

John Harold "J.H." Bruce Lockhart (4 March 1889 – 4 June 1956), known as Rufus, was a sportsman and educator, headmaster of Sedbergh School from 1937 to 1954. A member of the Bruce Lockhart family, he followed in its tradition by becoming a schoolmaster

Lockhart was a Scotland international rugby union player and also played for the Scotland national cricket team. the son of Robert Bruce Lockhart, headmaster (and founder) of Spier's School, Beith, since 1888, by his marriage to Florence Stuart Macgregor.

In 1895 his father moved on from Spier's School to Seafield House at Broughty Ferry, a new school he founded. Lockhart senior subsequently became headmaster of Eagle House School near Sandhurst, and J. H. Bruce Lockhart was sent to Sedbergh School, where he was head of house and captain of the school's association football and cricket teams. After Sedbergh, he went on to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read the modern languages Tripos and graduated with a second-class degree.

After his university days, Lockhart played for London Scottish. At the provincial level, he played once for Scotland Possibles on 18 January 1913, during the 1912–13 Scottish Districts season. He went on to become an international, representing Scotland as a fly half.

His son Logie played rugby union for Scotland, while his brother Robert was a footballer. He was also the grandfather of Lord Bruce-Lockhart and great-grandfather of actor Dugald Bruce Lockhart.

John Bruce Lockhart was an accomplished amateur artist, a member of the Lake Artists Society who exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. He became a member of the Scottish Committee of the Arts Council and was a governor of Welbeck College, a member of the Council of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, and a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.