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Title: Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart papers
Date (inclusive): 1895-2003
Collection Number: 85039
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
11 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize box, 1 oversize folder
(5.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, diaries, notes, memoranda, photographs, and memorabilia, relating to miscellaneous
aspects of Anglo-Soviet relations during the Russian Revolution, British espionage in the Soviet Union during the Russian
Revolution, miscellaneous aspects of British government activities during World War II (including Anglo-Czechoslovak relations),
and personal affairs. Includes many letters by Baroness Moura Budberg, some letters by British espionage agent Sidney Reilly,
and some material about him collected by Lockhart's son, Robin Bruce Lockhart.
Creator:
Lockhart, Robert Hamilton Bruce, 1887-1970
Creator:
Budberg, Moura
Creator:
Reilly, Sidney George, 1874-1925
Creator:
Lockhart, Robin Bruce
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1985.
[Identification of item], Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Digital copies of select records also available at
https://digitalcollections.hoover.org.
| 1887 September 2 | Born, Anstruther, Scotland |
| 1912-1915 | Vice-Consul, British Foreign Service, Moscow |
| 1915-1917 | Acting Consul-General, British Foreign service, Moscow |
| 1918 January | Head of Special Mission to the Soviet Government |
| 1918 Sept.-Oct. | Arrested by the Bolsheviks; released and exchanged for Maxim Litvinov |
| 1919-1922 | Commercial Secretary to British Legation, Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| 1922-1928 | Worked in banking in Central Europe |
| 1929-1937 | Member, Editorial Staff, Evening Standard (London) |
| 1932 | Author, Memoirs of a British Agent |
| 1934 | Author, Retreat from Glory |
| 1936 | Author, Return to Malaya |
| 1937 | Author, My Scottish Youth |
| 1938 | Author, Guns or Butter? |
| 1939-1940 | Director-General, Political Intelligence Department, British Foreign Office |
| 1940-1941 | British Representative with Provisional Czechoslovak government in London |
| 1941-1945 | Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, British Foreign Office and Director-General of Political Warfare Executive |
| 1943 | Knighted, Order of St. Michael and St. George |
| 1947 | Author, Comes the Reckoning |
| 1948 | Author, My Rod My Comfort |
| 1950 | Author, The Marines Were There |
| 1951 | Author, Scotch |
| Author, <title render="italic">Ján Masaryk</title> | |
| 1952 | Author, My Europe |
| 1955 | Author, Your England |
| 1957 | <title render="italic">Friends, Foes and Foreigners</title> |
| Author, <title render="italic">The Two Revolutions</title> | |
| 1960 | Author, Giants Cast Long Shadows |
| 1970 February 27 | Died, Hove, England |
The Robert Bruce Hamilton Lockhart papers consist of correspondence, diaries, memoranda, notes, speeches and writings, photographs,
and memorabilia, relating to miscellaneous aspects of Anglo-Soviet relations during the Russian Revolution, British espionage
in the Soviet Union during the Russian Revolution, miscellaneous aspects of British government activities during World War
II (including Anglo-Czechoslovak relations), and personal affairs. Also included is some material about Lockhart collected
by his son, Robin Bruce Lockhart.
The
Biographical file includes material on Lockhart's role in the counter-revolutionary "Lockhart Plot" against the Soviet Union. This scheme to
overthrow the Bolshevik government, with help from Sidney Reilly, resulted in Lockhart's arrest and subsequent sentencing
to death on charges of espionage and sabotage. The
Subject file contains information relating to the Chester Concession, which was a grant awarded by the Turkish National Assembly in 1923
April to the Ottoman-American Development Company giving it the right to develop Turkish natural resources, and a report on
the role of the Polish government in Boris Savinkov's conspiracy against the Soviet Union.
The
Sidney Reilly file contains material collected by Lockhart about this British espionage agent. It includes letters to and from Reilly, as well
as a 1968 article about the search for Reilly. A related item in the
Correspondence is a 1932 letter from Baroness Moura Budberg indicating that Reilly might still be alive.
The
Great Britain Foreign Office documents series consists of dispatches relating to the situation in Czechoslovakia in 1946-1948. The bulk is from the British Embassy
in Prague to the Foreign Office in London, but some from British Embassies elsewhere in Europe and the Soviet Union are included.
Security-classified documents have been removed from this series, as required by law, until they can be declassified by government
officials.
The
Incremental materials series is arranged following the arrangement of the rest of the collection. These materials include the papers of Robin N.
Bruce Lockhart, son of Robert H. Bruce Lockhart, who wrote a book about Sidney Reilly titled
Ace of Spies.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain
World War, 1939-1945 -- Czechoslovakia
Secret service -- Great Britain
Espionage, British -- Soviet Union
Great Britain. Foreign Office