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Served in English Parliament
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Oxford University
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Served Queen Elizabeth's Court
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Participated in a force that suppressed a rebellion in Scotland where he gained accolades for his military skill
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Involved himself in maritime affairs which included a queen’s commission to seize ships
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He developed plans and offered his service to helping England struggle with Spain
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Received 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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The queen recalled Lane from Ireland and he was given command of the colony that Sir Walter Raleigh was organizing
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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 Navigation
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Lane was back in Ireland in serving as “muster master general” and “clerk of the check of the garrison” and remained in the country for the rest of his life
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Physical weakness had made Lane 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.