(1813–1901) and his wife Sophia Eliza Griffiths; Louis William Dane, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, was his brother.
[1] Arriving there under the administration of Yuan Shikai, he set up a system on the Indian Civil Service model, recruiting district inspectors from many nationalities.
[3][2] Dane was a keen sportsman and in 1921 published a book "Sport in Africa and Asia" which contains accounts of big game hunting in India and China as well as details of government assignments including a trip to British North Borneo in 1911 where he was accompanied by his son .
[5] In the book he describes his eye getting "badly injured in a Polo accident in 1879" forcing him to learn to shoot unconventionally.
Their daughter, Sophie Louisa Dane married Sir Frank Sly in 1900, followed by the actor Hubert Druce in 1912.