[1][2] He was born at Southampton in Hampshire and died at St John's Wood, London.
[3] His older brother was Charles du Cane, a politician and colonial administrator who also played first-class cricket.
Du Cane was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
[1] After a single first-class match for Cambridge against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), he was picked for a "Gentlemen of the MCC" side against the "Gentlemen of England" and took 10 wickets in the match, although the full bowling figures for this game do not survive.
[3] He was ordained as a Church of England deacon in 1858 and as a priest the following year, and then served in parishes in Staffordshire, Cheshire, Sussex and Warwickshire before becoming vicar of Willingale Doe, Essex from 1874 to his death in 1882 at the age of 47.