John Macgregor Bruce Lockhart OBE CMG CB (9 May 1914 – 7 May 1995) was a British schoolmaster, soldier, diplomat, intelligence officer, and university administrator.
[1] At the outset of the Second World War, Lockhart joined the Seaforth Highlanders and was recruited as an instructor by the Intelligence Corps, in which his father had also served.
At the end of the war, Lockhart was posted as assistant military attaché to the British Embassy in Paris, and then in 1948 joined the Allied Control Commission in Germany, in fact taking charge of the Secret Intelligence Service network there.
In 1951 he went to the British Embassy in Washington DC as First Secretary, after which from 1953 to 1965 he was officially attached to the Foreign Office in London, but in fact working for the Secret Intelligence Service again.
In 1965 he left the SIS to join Warwick University, and in 1967 moved on to Courtaulds, as Head of its Central Staff Department.