[2] He was born at Kennington, at the time of his birth part of Surrey, now an inner London suburb.
[3] He played cricket as a lower-order right-hand batsman and a right-arm slow round-arm bowler in single first-class matches for Cambridge University in both 1866 and 1867, and then against the university for Southgate Cricket Club in 1868, all without success.
[4] His brother Charlton had a much longer first-class cricket career for Surrey, Oxford University and various amateur sides.
After leaving Cambridge, Lane moved to Lincolnshire where he was involved in a bank at Boston and became a Justice of the Peace.
Their daughter Janet Lane-Claypon (1877–1967) was a pioneering physician and cancer researcher.