J. B. Lockhart

James Balfour Lockhart FRSE (1886–27 January 1969) was a Scottish mathematician and teacher.

In 1912 he decided to start studying mathematics and natural philosophy (physics) at the University of Edinburgh.

[1] He appears to have been a Private in the Royal Army Medical Corps[2] Returning to university after the war he graduated with first class honours also receiving the Napier Medal for best mathematician in 1920.

In 1930 he became house-master of Dundas House, a boarding facility for the academy at 2 Kinnear Road.

On his retirement they moved to Balmony, a cottage in Glendevon in southern Perthshire (now part of Clackmannanshire).