Education
He studied at the Exeter College, Oxford and medicine at Leiden in 1702.
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Career
In 1717 Lane and Pollard established the Llangyfelach copper works at Landore near Swansea, but became bankrupt in 1726, a victim of the South Sea Bubble. The Llangefelach Works were subsequently used by Lockwood Morris & Company
In addition, at some stage he had a stamping mill at Kidwelly, on the site later used for Kidwelly Tinplate Works. His partner had copper mines in Cornwall.
Lane seems to have lived at Bristol, where he was practising medicine by 1702.
He participated in commercial life there, for example investing in a privateering venture from there in 1708 and in 1714 in the proposed navigation to Bath, for which see River Avon (Bristol). Despite his bankruptcy, he was able to lease a house in College Green, Bristol in 1728 and continued to practise medicine with a good reputation.
