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1550
1550 to 1560
He evidently never married -
1554
1554
Lane, born to Sir Ralph Lane and Maud Parr Lane of Northampton, attended Oxford University in 1554 and served in the English Parliament -
1569
1569
Lane participated in a force that suppressed a rebellion in Scotland in 1569 where he gained accolades for his military skill. -
1570
1570 to 1580
he was developing plans and offering his services in helping England struggle with Spain. In 1583, Lane received a commission to go to Ireland and direct the construction of forts. -
1585
seven ships with about 600 men under the overall command of Sir Richard Grenville left England. -
1586
a fleet led by Sir Francis Drake left Roanoke carrying the first English colonists back home. -
1588
He provided the foreword to Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia -
1589
and his account of the colony appeared in Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations -
1592
Lane was back in Ireland in 1592 serving as “muster master general” and “clerk of the check of the garrison” and remained in that country for the rest of his life. -
1601
Lane’s physical weakness had made him unfit as muster master -
1603
Lane died in Dublin, Ireland, in October 1603 and was buried at St. Patrick’s Church on the 28th of that month.