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Sir Ralph Lane was the second son of Sir Ralph Lane of Horton, Northamptonshire, and his wife Maud, daughter of William, Lord Parr. Of his early life nothing is known.
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Raleigh's First Roanoke Colony: The Account (Classic Reprint)
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Lane may have represented Higham Ferrers in the Parliament of 1558 and Northampton in that of 1562 (Names of Members Returned to Serve in Parliament, 1878, pt. I, pp. 397, 405). About 1563 he entered the service of Queen Elizabeth as equerry. He engaged in various maritime activities, receiving a commission in 1571 to search certain ships of Brittany reputed to be laden with unlawful goods, permission in 1573 to transport iron guns overseas, a license in 1574 to bring in ships with Portuguese commodities, and a patent in 1576 for searching for and seizing bullion and jewels transported contrary to statute.
Active in the struggle between England and Spain, he suggested a plan for raising 10, 000 men for service in Flanders, prepared seven ships for action against Spain, and asked to be commissioned "General of the Adventurers" in 1572. He asked to serve against the Spaniards in Ireland, in 1579, or to have the Queen's letters to the "Kings of Fez and Algiers. " He was sent into Ireland to erect fortifications in 1583 and remained there for two years. He was appointed sheriff of Kerry but relieved of the office to go with Sir Richard Grenville on a voyage to Virginia for Sir Walter Raleigh.
Grenville, Lane, and 107 colonists sailed from Plymouth in seven ships, April 9, 1585, arrived off Cape Fear June 23, and finally settled on Roanoke Island. Lane was left in command of the colony when Grenville sailed for England, August 25. He explored the surrounding country and sent glowing reports of Virginia to Walsingham and to Hakluyt. Realizing that a better harbor was necessary, he favored removal to Chesapeake Bay, but the hostility of the Indians was incurred, supplies failed to arrive, and removal was postponed.
Sir Francis Drake, whose fleet appeared off the coast June 8, 1586, offered to outfit Lane with shipping and supplies to last through the summer or to carry the colonists back to England. Lane accepted the first proposition but almost immediately the ship Drake gave him was driven to sea in a four-day storm. Drake offered to furnish another ship, but the discouraged colonists asked to be taken back to England. They embarked June 18 and sailed the following day, arriving at Portsmouth July 27, 1586. Only four men had been lost during the year. Lane wrote an account of Virginia published by Hakluyt in The Principall Navigations . .. of the English Nation (1589).
After his return to England, he resumed his activities against Spain. He submitted a plan for the defense of the coast in 1587 and was sent into Norfolk to view the forces of the county in the same year. He served as muster master of the camp at West Tilbury in Essex in 1588 and as muster master general of the army sent under Drake and Norris to the coasts of Spain and Portugal in 1589. Through the mediation of Lord Burghley he was made muster master general and clerk of the check of the garrisons in Ireland, January 15, 1592, and remained in Ireland for the duration of his life.
He was wounded in 1594 and from that time on suffered from ill health. Probably for that reason he was unable to perform his duties and charges of negligence were numerous in the years which followed. He seems never to have married. He died and was buried at Dublin.
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