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attended Oxford University in 1554 and served in the English Parliament in late 1550s and early 1560s. He evidently never married
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Ralph Lane was serving in Queen Elizabeth I’s court, marking the beginning of a career of service to queen and country.
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Lane was serving in Queen Elizabeth I’s court, marking the beginning of a career of service to queen and country.
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Lane participated in a force that suppressed a rebellion in Scotland in 1569 where he gained accolades for his military skill.
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Lane had involved himself in maritime affairs which included a queen’s commission to seize ships in 1571.
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he was developing plans and offering his services in helping England struggle with Spain. In 1583,
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queen recalled Lane from Ireland and he was given command of the colony that Sir Walter Raleigh was organizing to sail to Virginia (Roanoke Island). Raleigh evidently personally invited Lane to command the land expedition
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The conditions for success were not favorable due to the colony’s small size and the ravages of storms. On June 18 or 19, 1586, a fleet led by Sir Francis Drake left Roanoke carrying the first English colonists back home.
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his account of the colony appeared in Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations (1589)
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Lane was back in Ireland in 1592 serving as “muster master general” and “clerk of the check of the garrison” and remained in that country for the rest of his life.
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By 1601 Lane’s physical weakness had made him unfit as muster master
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Was an English explorer of the Elizabethan era. He was part of the unsuccessful attempt in 1585 to colonise Roanoke Island, North Carolina. He also served the Crown in Ireland and was knighted by the Queen in 1593.