Service for Lord Bruce-Lockhart
BBC News (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
A thanksgiving service for the life of the former chairman of English Heritage, Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, is to be held in Canterbury Cathedral.
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Lives remembered: John Esmonde, David ‘Butch’ White, Lord Bruce-Lockhart, Rodney Gordon and Michael Marland
Times Online (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Justin Pressland writes: Sandy Bruce-Lockhart () was my uncle. Lest the impression be given that he was an atypical Tory landowner, he and Tess had two mortgages (one from the seller) to buy their farm. I spent many happy times during my childhood on the dairy farm (fruit came much later). I saw few if any helpers outside the family; Sandy worked tirelessly for precious little monetary reward because...
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Will Mellor’s girl get heritage job?
The First Post (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Will Penelope, Viscountess Cobham (pictured), finally get the job of chairman of English Heritage, the body that cares for historical buildings, following the death last week of Lord Bruce-Lockhart? Lady…
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
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Alexander Bruce-Lockhart
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
EVEN when promoted to the loftiest offices, Lord Bruce-Lockhart was a farmer at heart with a farmer’s deep ties to the land.
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Lord Bruce-Lockhart
Tory Reform Group (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
The TRG is sorry to see the death of Lord Sandy Bruce-Lockhart. Alistair Burt, Conservative MP for NE Bedfordshire and Vice-President of the TRG, said, ” I am so sorry to hear this news. It is a great sadness for his family, of whom we are all thinking, but also for public life. “I worked with Sandy in a [...]
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A vigorous defender of local authorities
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
For a man who entered politics relatively late in life Lord Bruce-Lockhart took to it with an aplomb that suggested he had endured for years the machinations of the...
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Obituary: Lord Bruce-Lockhart
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Obituary: An old-style patrician Tory with a social conscience, he fought for local democracy
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Lord Bruce-Lockhart: Powerful advocate of local government who became an effective chairman of English Heritage
The Independent (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Few would have thought when he was first elected to Kent County Council in 1989 that Sandy Bruce-Lockhart would eight years later lead his Conservative group back into power and become one of the most powerful advocates of the localist agenda, helping return it to centre-stage in British politics.
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Lord Bruce-Lockhart dies at 66
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Prominent local government Conservative and chair of English Heritage passes away after long illness
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RIP Lord Bruce-Lockhart
Dan Hassett (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Sadly, Lord Bruce-Lockhart has died, after a long battle with cancer. I met and spoke with him on a couple of occasions at the last two Conservative Party conferences to have taken place in Bournemouth, and must confess to being a great admirer. As leader of Kent County Council from 1997, he turned the authority around from the basket case Lib-Lab authority, rated as the worst in the country, to the...
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Lord Bruce-Lockhart: chairman of the Local Government Association
Times Online (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Sandy Bruce-Lockhart was a likeable and influential Conservative politician, who, as chairman of the Local Government Association (LGA), became one of the most powerful Conservatives in the country, staunchly and vocally defending the localist devolutionary agenda and returning it to the centre stage of politics. After three years at its helm he became the chairman of English Heritage in 2007.
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Response to the death of Lord Bruce-Lockhart
Conservative Party (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Caroline Spelman has expressed her sorrow at the death of Lord Sandy Bruce-Lockhart.
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Lord Bruce-Lockhart of English Heritage dies
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Lord Bruce-Lockhart, chairman of English Heritage and former head of the Local Government Association, has died in hospital after a long illness.
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Lord Bruce-Lockhart dies aged 66
BBC News (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
English Heritage chief and ex Local Government Association head Sandy Bruce-Lockhart dies in hospital.
