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LANE, SIR RICHARD, eldest son of Richard Lane, Courteenhall, Northants, and Elizabeth, dau. of Clement Vincent, Harpole, Northants; bapt. 12 Nov 1584; adm.; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge, but was never adm.; adm. Inner Temple 16 Feb 1604/5, called to bar 8 Feb 1612/3, Bencher 1630, Treasurer 1637; practised in Court of Exchequer; Attorney-Gen. to Prince of Wales 1634; Counsel to Cambridge Univ. 1635; appeared for Strafford when impeached by House of Commons 1641, for Mr. Justice Berkeley 1641 and for the twelve bishops Jan 1641/2; MA Oxford 1 Nov 1642; DCL 31 Jan 1643/4; joined Charles I at Oxford; knighted 4 Jan 1643/4; Serjeant-at-Law 23 Jan 1643/4; Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 25 Jan 1643/4; Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 25 Oct 1645; one of King’s Commissioners at Uxbridge Jan 1645/6; acted on King’s behalf at surrender of Oxford Jun 1646; followed Charles II into exile; Privy Councillor 13 May 1649 (sworn in at The Hague); author, Reports in the Court of Exchequer from 1605 to 1612, 1657; m. Margaret, dau. of Thomas Walker, Westminster, and aunt of Thomas Randolph (elected to Cambridge 1623, qv); d. at Elizabeth Castle, Jersey 12 May 1650. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.