Henry Murray Lane was an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.
Background
LANE, Henry Murray was born on March 3, 1833 in at Leamington, Company Warwick. Son of Reverend Charles Lane, M. A., Rector of Wrotham, Kent, and Honourable Canon of Canterbury, and of Frances Catherine, daughter of Right Reverend Daniel Sandford, Doctor of Divinity, Bishop of Edinburgh. Bluemantle Pursuivant of Anus, 1849.
Secretary of the Garter Mission to Russia, 1867.
Career
Through his father, he was a descendant of the Lane family of Bentley Hall (later of Kings Bromley) one of whom was Jane Lane, the English Civil War heroine. His mother was a daughter of the Right Review Doctor Daniel Sandford, Doctor of Divinity, Bishop of Edinburgh from 1806 until 1830.
He was appointed Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary on August 11, 1849 at the age of 15, and promoted to the rank of Chester Herald of Arms in Ordinary on July 18, 1864.
He was Registrar of the College of Arms from 1880 to 1887 and secretary to Garter Mission to the Court of Saint St. Petersburg in 1867.