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He Attends Oxfords University
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Lane was serving in Queen Elizabeth I’s court.
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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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Lane received a commission to go to Ireland and direct the construction of forts.
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The 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).
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In April 1585, seven ships with about 600 men under the overall command of Sir Richard Grenville left England.
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A fleet led by Sir Francis Drake left Roanoke carrying the first English colonists back home.
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He provided the foreword to Thomas Hariot’s Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
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His account of the colony appeared in Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations.
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Lane was back in Ireland 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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Lane’s physical weakness had made him unfit as muster master.
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Lane died in Dublin, Ireland, in October 1603 and was buried at St. Patrick’s Church on the 28th of that month.