LANE, Charles Edward William (son of John Lane). bapt. St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London 29 Oct. 1786; ensign 1 Bengal N.I. 13 Aug. 1807; sought to change his name to Mattenby in 1824 but was not permitted to do so; served in Arracan 1825; in charge of the commissariat at Dinapore 1832; lieut.-col. of 2 Bengal N.I. 26 Dec. 1841–43, of 13 N.I. 1843 to 10 Dec. 1847, of 74 N.I. 10 Dec. 1847 to 25 May 1852; commanded garrison of Candahar when assaulted by the Afghans 10 March 1842; C.B. 27 Dec. 1842; col. 6 Bengal N.I. 25 May 1852 to 1858; general 25 June 1870. d. Jersey 18 Feb. 1872.
LANE, Charlton (son of Wm. Lane of Croydon, Surrey). b. 1797; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. and Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1823; C. of Lambeth 1828–32; P.C. of St. Mark’s, Kennington, London 1832–64; R.D. of Southwark 1854–64; V. of Hampstead 1864–72; professor of rhetoric, Gresham college, London 1863 to death; printed 12 sermons and was author of To the parishioners of Kennington, Stockwell and South Lambeth, how to meet the cholera 1854. d. 14 St. John’s Wood park, London 28 May 1875. bur. churchyard of St. John, Hampstead.
LANE, Charlton George (son of the preceding). b. Kennington parsonage 11 June 1836; ed. at Westminster 1849–54 (in the cricket eleven 5 years, captain 1853) and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; known as the Admirable Crichton of Oxford, usually called White Lane to distinguish him from Ernald Lane of Balliol; rowed No. 3 in the Univ. Eight 1858–9; played in the Univ. Eleven 1856 and 1858–60, captain 1860; won the Univ. racquets; played for Surrey 1856–61, played for Gentlemen against the Players 1857–61, played in the First Eleven of England v. Next Fourteen 1860; played for the Veterans against Marylebone cricket club in the M.C.C. centenary week at Lord’s 1887 when he scored double figures in each innings; a brilliant batsman and fine field especially at long-leg; member of the Hogarth club at Oxford; C. of Great Witley, Worcs. 1862–5; C. of Little Gaddesden, Herts. 1868–70, rector 16 Jany. 1870 to death; member of the Mercers’ Co., master 1890. d. Little Gaddesden rectory 2 Nov. 1892. Illustrated Times 10 Aug. 1861 p. 93, portrait; The Guardian 16 Nov. 1892 p. 1766.
LANE, Christopher Bagot. b. Nurney house, co. Kildare 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin and univ. of Edinb.; admitted into London office of I. K. Brunel, Dec. 1837; professor of civil engineering at Trin. coll. Dublin 1846–49 and at Queen’s college, Cork 1849–53; consulting engineer for railways to Brazilian government July 1853 to 1861; resided at Rio Janeiro 1853–60; joint engineer with E. Bagot of various railway lines in South Wales 1864–72; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849, M.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1856. d. 24 Clifton villas, Maida hill, London 11 Jany. 1877. Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. xlviii 266–9 (1877).
LANE, Edward William (3 son of Theophilus Lane, preb. of Hereford cath. d. 1814). b. Hereford 17 Sep. 1801; ed. at Bath and Hereford gram. schools; learnt engraving under Charles Heath, London; went to Alexandria, July 1825 where he soon spoke Arabic and wore the native dress, studied and sketched at Thebes 1826–7; resided in Cairo, Dec. 1833 to Aug. 1835 under the name of Mansoor Effendi; resided in Cairo 1842–49 compiling his Arabic lexicon; resided at Worthing working on his Arabic lexicon 1850 to death; had grants from Fund for special services 1848–63 and civil list pension of £100 from 18 June 1863; the chief Arabic scholar in Europe; author of An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians 1836, 6 ed. 1871; The thousand and one nights, a translation 1838–40, came out in monthly parts, 2 ed. 1859; Selections from the Kuran 1843; An Arabic English lexicon 8 parts 1863–92; his life-sized statue in Egyptian dress was executed by his brother Richard Lane; his widow Anastasia granted civil list pension of £100, 5 Dec. 1876. d. Worthing 10 Aug. 1876. Stanley Lane Poole’s Life of E. W. Lane (1877); I.L.N. lxix 213, 214 (1876), portrait.
LANE, George. Ensign 5 Middlesex militia 17 Nov. 1854, captain 17 Dec. 1857 to 13 May 1861; gentleman at arms 8 Nov. 1860 to death, d. 19 Redcliffe gardens, London 7 May 1870.
LANE, Hammer, cognomen of John Lane). b. Birmingham 15 Dec. 1815; a pugilist, fighting weight 10 st. 10 lbs.; beat Harry Ball and Hewson 1833; beat Jack Green £25 a side 17 March 1835; beat Tass Parker £25 a side 15 Sep. 1835 and again £50 a side in 96 rounds lasting 2 hours at Woodstock 7 March 1837; beat Owen Swift £50 a side in 104 rounds lasting 123 minutes at Four Shire Stone, Warwickshire 10 May 1836; beat Jack Adams £50 a side at Woodstock 23 Aug. 1836; beat Byng Stocks £50 a side near Bicester, Oxon. 15 Jany. 1838; beaten by Young Molyneux the Black £100 a side at Worksop Common, Notts. 9 June 1840; beaten by Yankee Sullivan alias James Ambrose £50 a side at Crookham Common 2 Feb. 1841; beaten by Tom Davis £50 a side 40 rounds in 67 minutes at Noman’s Heath near Tamworth 25 June 1850; fought Jack Grant £100 a side at Kingswood Common, Shropshire 28 June 1864, drawn battle; kept The Gunmaker’s Arms, Moore st. Birmingham from 1841. John Hannan’s Guide to British boxing (1850) 49–52; Illust. sporting news, iii 228, 229 (1864), portrait.
Note.—Three of his brothers were also pugilists, George, James and Tom who was b. Feb. 1825, fought John Walker a drawn battle of £200 a side at Hythe near Folkestone 15 Feb. 1848 and d. Birmingham 7 Sep. 1868.
LANE, James Hunter. L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1829; M.D. Edinb. 1830; hon. phys. to cholera hospital, Liverpool 1831–2; physician to Lock hospital of Liverpool infirmary 1833; senior physician of Lancaster infirmary 1840; pres. of Royal Medical Society of Edinb. about 1841; edited Liverpool Medical Gazette; The monthly archives of the medical sciences 1834, one volume; lived latterly at 58 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London; author of A compendium of materia medica and pharmacy 1840; author with J. M. Gully of a translation of Frederick Tiedemann’s A systematic treatise on comparative physiology 2 vols. 1834. d. Brighton 23 June 1853.
LANE, John Bryant (son of Samuel Lane, chemist). b. Helston, Cornwall 1788; ed. at Truro; a painter in London 1802–17; engaged at Rome 1817–27 on a gigantic picture ‘The vision of Joseph,’ which he exhibited at Rome 1827, for which he was expelled by the papal authorities, exhibited it at the Royal Mews, Charing Cross, London 1827, it was a failure and went to decay in the Pantechnicon, Belgrave sq.; painted portraits of Sir Hussey Vivian, Lord de Dunstanville and others; exhibited 16 portraits at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1808–34. d. 45 Clarendon sq. Somer’s Town, London 4 April 1868.