A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lane, John Edward
LANE. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 17; h-p., 29.)
John Edward Lane entered the Navy, in 1801, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Cambridge 74, Capt. Lane, lying at Hamoaze, where, in May, 1802, he joined the Centaur 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres. Between June in the same year and June, 1807, we find him serving, as Midshipman, on the Mediterranean and Home stations, in the Spider, Lieut.-Commander Harding Shaw, Triumph 74, Capt. Sir Robt. Barlow, Dryad 36, Capt. Adam Drummond, Barfleur 98, Capt. Jos. Sydney Yorke, and Success 32, Capt. John Ayscough. During the next two years he acted as Lieutenant of the Belle Poule 38, Capt. Jas. Brisbane, under whom, besides contributing to the capture of other smaller vessels, he assisted in taking, 15 Feb. 1809 [errata 1], Le Var of 26 guns, laden with corn for the relief of the French garrison at Corfu. From the following July until Sept. 1810 he again served as Midshipman in the Ville de Paris and San Josef llO’s, flag-ships of Lord Collingwood and Sir Chas. Cotton. He was then a second time invested with the rank of Lieutenant, in the Volontaire 38, Capts. Chas. Bullen, Abel Ferris, Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt, and Joseph Nourse, in which frigate he continued, co-operating intermediately with the patriots on the coast of Spain, until at length confirmed, 17 Jan. 1811, into the Trident 64, Capt. Rich. Budd Vincent, stationed at Malta. His last appointments were – 4 Nov. 1811, to the Frederickstein frigate, Capt. Fras. Beaufort, also in the Mediterranean, whence he returned in Oct. 1812 – 8 Oct. 1813, to the Telegraph 12, Capt. Timothy Scriven, in which vessel he was for nearly two years employed on the Channel and North American stations – and 25 June, 1831, to the command of the Swan cutter of 10 guns, on the Home station, where he remained until paid off in 1835. He has not been since afloat.
He married, 16 May, 1832, Lauretta Maude, daughter of the late W. Blewett, Esq., of Halton Court, Cornwall.