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Bruce Lockhart, Sir Robert Hamilton, (1887-1970), Knight, Knight civil servant journalist and author

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Surname: Bruce Lockhart
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Robert Hamilton
Gender: Male
Date: 1887-1970
Title: Knight
History: Diplomat and author. Head of special mission to the Soviet government, 1918; arrested by the Bolsheviks and exchanged for Litvinov, Sept-Oct 1918. Director General of the Political Warfare Executive, 1941-1945. Knighted 1943.
Biography: ODNB link for Lockhart, Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce (1887-1970), Knight civil servant journalist and author
References: Who Was Who; NCA Rules
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P275771 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P164829 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1945-1953: Professor Geoffrey Jefferson: 1946 tour to Austria, lecturing on recent advances in...
The National Archives, Kew
BW 83/4
2
1895-1970: diaries, corresp and papers
Stanford University, Hoover Institution on War Revolution and Peace
See information from website
3
1906-69: corresp and papers (c3,500 items)
Indiana University: Lilly Library
Lockhart, R. mss
4
1915-65: diaries
Parliamentary Archives
LOC
5
1910-60: notebooks, cuttings and collected papers
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc 3176, 4171, 9644, 11970
NRA 43294 Bruce Lockhart
6
1938-65: Foreign Office corresp and papers
The National Archives
FO 800/868-86
7
1957-68: corresp with Lord Avon
University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections
AP 23/45
NRA 28779 Eden
8
1928-64: corresp with Lord Beaverbrook
Parliamentary Archives
BBK
NRA 19284 Aitken
9
1945-58: corresp with Sir Percy Loraine
The National Archives
FO 1011/282