Sir Robert Romney Kane, Bt (28 October 1842 – 26 March 1902) was an Irish barrister and legal writer.
After attending Dr. Quinn's private school in Harcourt Street, Kane passed to Queen's College, Cork, where he graduated M.A.
)[1] Becoming a member of Lincoln's Inn, Kane studied law in London in the chambers of an eminent conveyancing lawyer, W. H. G. Bagshawe, and in 1865 he graduated LL.B.
The elder son, Harold, lieutenant in the 1st battalion of the South Lancashire regiment, fell in the Second Boer War while fighting on the summit of Mount Itala on 26 September 1901.
[1] His second son was killed in action in the final weeks of the First World War commanding the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers.