He was educated at Sedbergh, Edinburgh Academy, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he studied Modern Languages.
[3] His brothers were Logie, a Scottish rugby international and later headmaster,[4] John, who became Deputy Director of MI6, and Patrick, an obstetrician.
However it was a strange match, and the selectors confused many onlookers by using a variety of substitutes, which at the time was uncommon; Lockhart himself switched sides in the second half to play for the Possibles.
[8] From 1950 to 1954, Lockhart taught in Canada, then was appointed as headmaster of Wanganui Collegiate School, New Zealand, where he remained until 1960.
Rab Bruce Lockhart died at his home in Burneside, Cumbria, England, in 1990, aged 73, from a heart attack.