Ralph lane

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  • 1550

    served in the English Parliament

  • 1554

    attended Oxford University

  • 1563

    serving in Queen Elizabeth I’s court,

  • 1569

    Lane participated in a force that suppressed a rebellion in Scotland i

  • 1570

    Lane had involved himself in maritime affairs

  • 1580

    he was developing plans and offering his services in helping England struggle with Spain

  • seven ships with about 600 men under the overall command of Sir Richard Grenville left England.

  • 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)

  • a fleet led by Sir Francis Drake left Roanoke carrying the first English colonists back home.

  • He provided the foreword to Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

  • 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

  • Lane’s physical weakness had made him unfit as muster master.

  • Lane died in Dublin, Ireland, and was buried at St. Patrick’s Church.