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

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Early life

Lane was born at Kings Bromley Manor, Lichfield, Staffordshire, in 1847, the youngest son and 10th child of John Newton Lane and Hon. Agnes Bagot, second daughter of

William Bagot, 2nd Baron Bagot William Bagot, 2nd Baron Bagot (11 September 1773 – 12 February 1856), was a British peer. William Bagot was born in London, the eldest son of William Bagot, 1st Baron Bagot, and his second wife Elizabeth Louisa St John. He was educated at We ...

Military career

Lane was commissioned into the

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in 1867. He was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General in Natal in 1891, Aide-de-Camp to the Duke of Connaught as Commander of the Guards' Brigade in Egypt in 1882 and Assistant Military Secretary in Canada in 1883.''The county families of the United Kingdom or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland'' (Volume ed.59, 1919) by Edward Walford, p. 210
/ref> 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. In December 1901 he was appointed Commander of the Infantry Brigade at Malta, and he served as administrator of the government during the absence of the Governor, Sir Francis Grenfell, in July 1902. His last appointments were as

at Headquarters in 1903 and Lieutenant-Governor and Secretary of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in 1905 before retiring in 1909. In retirement he became Chairman of the Southern Alberta Land Company in Canada. On 15 March 1920, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of

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Personal life

In 1893, he married Augusta Sarah Beaumont, daughter of John Augustus Beaumont, developer of Wimbledon Park. Their only child, Captain George Ronald Lane, was in the Coldstream Guards and fell in action in the

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in 1916. He died at the age of 90 at Carlton Hall, Saxmundham.

References

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