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1550
He served in the English Parliament
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1554
He attended Oxford University
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1563
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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1569
Lane participated in a force that suppressed a rebellion in Scotland
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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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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 Harriot’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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and was buried at St. Patrick’s Church on the 28th of that month