Lockhart, Robert Hamilton Bruce, 1887-1970
Variant namesEpithet: Mrs
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000569.0x00019a
British government official and author; head of special mission to Soviet government, 1918; director-general, Political Intelligence Department, Foreign Office, 1940-1945.
From the description of Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart papers, 1895-2003. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872191
Biographical Note
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1887 September 2:
Born, Anstruther, Scotland -
1912 -1915 :Vice-Consul, British Foreign Service, Moscow -
1915 -1917 :Acting Consul-General, British Foreign service, Moscow -
1918 January:
Head of Special Mission to the Soviet Government -
1918 Sept. -1918 Oct. :Arrested by the Bolsheviks; released and exchanged for Maxim Litvinov -
1919 -1922 :Commercial Secretary to British Legation, Prague, Czechoslovakia -
1922 -1928 :Worked in banking in Central Europe -
1929 -1937 :Member, Editorial Staff, Evening Standard (London) -
1932:
Author, Memoirs of a British Agent -
1934:
Author, Retreat from Glory -
1936:
Author, Return to Malaya -
1937:
Author, My Scottish Youth -
1938:
Author, Guns or Butter? -
1939 -1940 :Director-General, Political Intelligence Department, British Foreign Office -
1940 -1941 :British Representative with Provisional Czechoslovak government in London -
1941 -1945 :Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, British Foreign Office and Director-General of Political Warfare Executive -
1943:
Knighted, Order of St. Michael and St. George -
1947:
Author, Comes the Reckoning -
1948:
Author, My Rod My Comfort -
1950:
Author, The Marines Were There -
1951:
Author, Ján Masaryk Author, Scotch -
1952:
Author, My Europe -
1955:
Author, Your England -
1957:
Author, The Two Revolutions Friends, Foes and Foreigners -
1960:
Author, Giants Cast Long Shadows -
1970 February 27:
Died, Hove, England
From the guide to the Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart papers, 1895-1971, (Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace)
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associatedWith | Budberg, Moura. | person |
associatedWith | Budberg, Moura. | person |
associatedWith | Great Britain. Foreign Office. | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Grew, Joseph C. (Joseph Clark), 1880-1965 | person |
associatedWith | Lockhart, Robin Bruce. | person |
associatedWith | OAC Review Index (University of Guelph) | corporateBody |
associatedWith | Reilly, Sidney George, 1874-1925. | person |
correspondedWith | Sherwood, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1896-1955 | person |
associatedWith | Viereck, George Sylvester, 1884-1962, | person |
correspondedWith | Woollcott, Alexander, 1887-1943 | person |
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Soviet Union | |||
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Espionage, British |
Espionage, British |
Secret service |
Secret service Great Britain |
World War, 1939-1945 |
World War, 1939-1945 |
World War, 1939-1945 Czechoslovakia |
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Person
Birth 1887-09-02
Death 1970-02-27
Britons
English