![]() ![]() Following the Bolshevik revolution he returned to Russia as the first British envoy to the new Bolshevik government, but also working in an anti-Bolshevik capacity for SIS. They won the Moscow league championship that year.Īt the time of the February 1917 revolution Lockhart was the acting Consul-General in Russia and he fled to Britain. He was known to be a decent footballer and in 1912 was signed up by Morozov, a local factory team. ![]() He came from a family of schoolmasters and after a period in Malaysia he joined the British Foreign Service and was posted to Moscow as Vice-Consul. Intelligence involvement: Worked for the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6) during WW1 and was director general of the Police Warfare Executive in WW2.Ĭulture involvement: Prolific writer, including Memoirs of a British Agent in 1932 about his WW1 exploits, which was adapted into the film British Agent.īio: Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart was born in Fife to Scottish parents, and was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh. ![]()
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