Richard Lane

Profile & Legacies Summary

2^nd Oct 1794 - 27^th Jan 1870

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on Newtons on Barbados.

Youngest son (4th, 3rd surviving) of Thomas Lane of The Grange, Leyton (1754-1824) and Barbara Fowler. Thomas Lane had inherited Newton and Seawells with his brother John in 1794 and divided the two in 1803. Thomas Lane was a London solicitor, and Solicitor Clerk to the Goldsmiths Hall. Richard Lane's son Richard Stuart Lane (1829-1892) appears to have taken on the estate [there is confusion in Chapman p. 13 between Richard and Richard Stuart Lane].
Will of Richard Lane late of 38 Brunswick Square Hove who died 26/01/1870 proved 24/05/1870, effects under £7,000.

Sources

T71/898 Barbados claim no. 3245 (Newtons).

David Ian Chapman, The Great Houses of Leyton and Leytonstone: The Grange, with emphasis on the Lane Family and the Slave Trade (Leytonstone, London, Leyton & Leytonstone Historical Society, 2007), pp. 12-13.
National Probate Calendar 1870.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Sarah Pink Tracey (24/4/1827)

Children

Richard Stuart (1829-1892), Maj-Gen. Charles Stuart (1831-), Thomas Blomefield (1832-1872), Wilmot (1833-1917), Henry Lucas-Lane (1835-1860), Sarah Magdalene (1837-1874), Emily Eliza ((1837-1874)

Wealth at death

£7,000

Associated Claims (1)

Associated Estates (1)

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