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- ↑ "James Bruce-Lockhart obituary . Intelligence officer from a family of spies, who followed in John Le Carré’s footsteps in Germany and was an accomplished artist", The Times, 5 December 2018, 12:01am, accessed 22 February 2019
- ↑ BRUCE-LOCKHART, Jamie, at suffolkartists.co.uk, accessed 12 April 2018
- ↑ Catherine Jones, Liverpool Playhouse date for World Cup play The Three Lions / Actor Dugald Bruce-Lockhart on playing David Cameron in stage comedy dated 5 March 2015 in Liverpool Echo
