Simon Bruce-Lockhart

Simon C. Bruce-Lockhart (born 1949), is a Scottish-Canadian schoolmaster who taught at several schools in Canada between 1972 and 2015.

He was first an English and Mathematics teacher, and then also a housemaster, at his old school, Ridley College, and later a housemaster at Lakefield College School, then was successively Head of School at Albert College, Belleville, Shawnigan Lake School, Mulgrave School, and Glenlyon Norfolk School, the last three of which are in British Columbia.

Early life

Bruce-Lockhart is one of the sons of Patrick Bruce Lockhart (1918–2009), an obstetrician, by his marriage in 1942 to Mary Campbell Seddall. His parents emigrated from Britain to Canada in 1953, and after his mother's death in 1960 his father remarried and had more children, two more sons and a daughter. [1] He is the brother of Michael Bruce-Lockhart (born 1947), now retired as Professor of Computer Engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and they also have a younger full sister, Ferelyth.[2]

The Bruce Lockhart family has a long tradition of teaching. Bruce-Lockhart's grandfather, John Bruce Lockhart, was headmaster of Sedbergh School, in the north of England, and two of his uncles, Rab and Logie Bruce Lockhart, were headmasters who had played rugby union for Scotland. His great-grandfather, Robert Bruce Lockhart (1858–1950), was a Scottish headmaster born at Montreal, in Canada, and he lived long enough for them to meet.[3]

Bruce-Lockhart was educated at Ridley College, Ontario, from 1962 to 1967,[4] where he was a school prefect in his final year,[5] and Yale, where he graduated BA.[6]

Career

Following in the family tradition, after Yale, Bruce-Lockhart trained for a teaching career. In 1972 he returned to Ridley College, his old school, as a master, to teach English and Mathematics, but took time out from 1975 to 1976 to spend a year at Dalhousie University studying law. He then returned to Ridley as housemaster of Gooderham House, before moving on in 1979 to Lakefield College School, in Selwyn, Ontario, again as a housemaster,[4][7] and became also the school's director for admissions. In 1986 he was appointed as head of school at Albert College, Belleville, where he remained until 1990. After that, he was head of school at Shawnigan Lake School, on Vancouver Island, from 1990 to 2000,[6] Mulgrave School, West Vancouver, in 2003–2004, and Glenlyon Norfolk School, also in British Columbia, from 2004 to 2015.[8][9]

In 1990, shortly after his arrival at Shawnigan Lake School, Bruce-Lockhart persuaded Jason Dorland to come to the school as a rowing coach, and Dorland has described him as "a big man", a rugby, football, and hockey player with "gentleness and kindness about him".[10]

Notes
  1. Dr Paddy Bruce-Lockhart (obituary) in The Scotsman dated 25 August 2009 at scotsman.com/news/obituaries, accessed 21 April 2018
  2. James Bruce Lockhart, Alan Macfarlane, Dragon Days (2013), p. 11
  3. "Robert Bruce Lockhart M.A. 1878" (obituary) in University of Edinburgh Journal, Volumes 15-16 (1951), p. 107: "ROBERT BRUCE LOCKHART, M.A. 1878, late headmaster of Eagle House, Sandhurst, previously of Waid Academy, Anstruther, Spiers School, Beith, and Seafield House, Broughty Ferry : in London, 18th November 1950, aged 91."
  4. "The Faculty" in Acta Ridleiana THE YEARBOOK OF RIDLEY COLLEGE 1978–1979, p. 2 at archive.org: "S.C. BRUCE-LOCKHART (O.R. 62-67)(1972) B.A., Yale University, English, Mathematics, Housemaster, Gooderham House"
  5. Acta Ridleiana: The School Magazine of Ridley College MIDYEAR ISSUE, 1967, p. 24 at archive.org
  6. Ashley Thomson, Sylvie Lafortune, The Handbook of Canadian Boarding Schools (1999), pp. 117, 118
  7. "VALETE SIMON C. BRUCE-LOCKHART" in Acta Ridleiana THE YEARBOOK OF RIDLEY COLLEGE 1978–1979, p. 173 at archive.org: "Once again Ridley bids farewell to a devoted faculty member, Simon Bruce-Lockhart, an old Ridleian and Yale graduate. He returned to Ridley in the capacity of master, rather than student, in 1972, but left after three years to attend Dalhousie for law. To prove that Ridley, like alcohol, stays in ones blood, he returned again in 1976 to resume the role of Gooderham Housemaster... On this his third parting, he appears to leave for good to Lakefield College to enjoy a life of outdoor activity and a smaller, more manageable house."
  8. Derek Bingham, The ECIS International Schools Directory 2009/10 (2009), p. 470
  9. John Catt Guide to International Schools (2011), p. D-136
  10. Jason Dorland, Chariots and Horses: Life Lessons from an Olympic Rower (Heritage House, 2011), p. 73
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