Captain Richard Cecil Rutledge Kane, MC (1877[1] – 4 November 1958[2]) was the United Kingdom's fourth Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate, serving from 1921 to 1929.
[3] He had previously worked in Fiji as District Commissioner for Rewa, as well as serving in the colony's Legislative Council.
[7] As Resident Commissioner in Samoa, he made a speech on Malaita about the benefits of the new tax per head.
The District Commissioner of Malaita, William R. Bell, then pushed the authorities to provide a Medical Officer and other return for the tax money.
However, the scheme was quashed by Lieutenant-Colonel H.C. Moorhouse, sent by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to investigate, who pushed for rapid repatriation of the detainees.