Ronald Lane

Major-General Sir Ronald Bertram Lane, KCB, KCVO, DL (19 February 1847 – 7 March 1937) was a British Army officer who became Military Secretary.

[2] He went on to be Assistant Military Secretary at Headquarters in 1892, Aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cambridge as Commander-in-Chief in 1889 and Commander of the Garrison at Alexandria in 1898.

[2] In December 1901 he was appointed Commander of the Infantry Brigade at Malta,[4] and he served as administrator of the government during the absence of the Governor, Sir Francis Grenfell, in July 1902.

[2][6] In retirement he became Chairman of the Southern Alberta Land Company in Canada.

Their only child, Captain George Ronald Lane, was in the Coldstream Guards and fell in action in the Battle of the Somme in 1916.