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Served in the English Parliament in late 1550s and early 1560s.
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Attended Oxford 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
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Developing plans and offering his services in helping England struggle with Spain
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Lane had involved himself in maritime affairs which included a queen’s commission to seize ships
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Lane received a commission to go to Ireland and direct the construction of forts.
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Seven ships with about 600 men under the overall command of Sir Richard Grenville left England.
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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).
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A fleet led by Sir Francis Drake left Roanoke carrying the first English colonists back home.
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Lane was back in Ireland in 1592 serving as “muster master general” and “clerk of the check of the garrison”
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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.