characterized the best circles of English evangelicalism in the early part of the 19th century.
A Memoir, by his grand-nephew, S. Lane-Poole, was prefixed to part vi. of the Lexicon. It was published separately in 1877.
LANE, GEORGE MARTIN (1823–1897), American scholar,
was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, on the 24th of December
1823. He graduated in 1846 at Harvard, and in 1847–1851
studied at the universities of Berlin, Bonn, Heidelberg and
Göttingen. In 1851 he received his doctor’s degree at Göttingen
for his dissertation Smyrnaeorum Res Gestae et Antiquitates,
and on his return to America he was appointed University
Professor of Latin in Harvard College. From 1869 until 1894,
when he resigned and became professor emeritus, he was Pope
Professor of Latin in the same institution. His Latin Pronunciation,
which led to the rejection of the English method of
Latin pronunciation in the United States, was published in 1871.
He died on the 30th of June 1897. His Latin Grammar, completed
and published by Professor M. H. Morgan in the following
year, is of high value. Lane’s assistance in the preparation of
Harper’s Latin lexicons was also invaluable. English light
verse he wrote with humour and fluency, and his song Jonah
and the Ballad of the Lone Fishball were famous.
LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866), American soldier and
politician, was born at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, on the 22nd of
June 1814. He was the son of Amos Lane (1778–1849), a
political leader in Indiana, a member of the Indiana House of
Representatives in 1816–1818 (speaker in 1817–1818), in 1821–1822
and in 1839–1840, and from 1833 to 1837 a Democratic
representative in Congress. The son received a common school
education, studied law and in 1840 was admitted to the bar.
In the Mexican War he served as a colonel under General Taylor,
and then commanded the Fifth Indiana regiment (which he had
raised) in the Southern Campaign under General Scott. Lane
was lieutenant-governor of Indiana from 1849 to 1853, and from
1853 to 1855 was a Democratic representative in Congress. His
vote in favour of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill ruined his political
future in his own state, and he emigrated in 1855 to the Territory
of Kansas, probably as an agent of Stephen A. Douglas to organize
the Democratic party there. He soon joined the Free State
forces, however, was a member of the first general Free State
convention at Big Springs in September 1855, and wrote its
“platform,” which deprecated abolitionism and urged the
exclusion of negroes from the Territory; and he presided over
the Topeka Constitutional Convention, composed of Free State
men, in the autumn of 1855. Lane was second in command of
the forces in Lawrence during the “Wakarusa War”; and in the
spring of 1856 was elected a United States senator under the
Topeka Constitution, the validity of which, however, and
therefore the validity of his election, Congress refused to recognize.
In May 1856, with George Washington Deitzler (1826–1884),
Dr Charles Robinson, and other Free State leaders, he was
indicted for treason; but he escaped from Kansas, made a tour
of the northern cities, and by his fiery oratory aroused great
enthusiasm in behalf of the Free State movement in Kansas.
Returning to the Territory with John Brown in August 1856,
he took an active part in the domestic feuds of 1856–1857.
After Kansas became a state, Lane was elected in 1861 to the
United States Senate as a Republican. Immediately on reaching
Washington he organized a company to guard the President;
and in August 1861, having gained the ear of the Federal authorities
and become intimate with President Lincoln, he went to
Kansas with vague military powers, and exercised them in spite
of the protests of the governor and the regular departmental commanders.
During the autumn, with a brigade of 1500 men, he
conducted a devastating campaign on the Missouri border, and
in July 1862 he was appointed commissioner of recruiting for
Kansas, a position in which he rendered faithful service, though
he frequently came into conflict with the state authorities. At
this time he planned a chimerical “great Southern expedition”
against New Mexico, but this came to nothing. In 1864 he
laboured earnestly for the re-election of Lincoln. When President
Johnson quarrelled with the Radical Republicans, Lane deserted
the latter and defended the Executive. Angered by his defection,
certain senators accused him of being implicated in Indian
contracts of a fraudulent character; and in a fit of depression
following this accusation he took his own life, dying near Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, on the 11th of July 1866, ten days after
he had shot himself in the head. Ambitious, unscrupulous, rash
and impulsive, and generally regarded by his contemporaries
as an unsafe leader, Lane was a man of great energy and personal
magnetism, and possessed oratorical powers of a high order.
See the article by L. W. Spring entitled “The Career of a Kansas Politician,” in vol. iv. (October 1898) of the American Historical Review; and for the commoner view, which makes him not a coward as does Spring, but a “grim chieftain” and a hero, see John Speer, Life of Gen. James H. Lane, “The Saviour of Kansas,” (Garden City, Kansas, 1896).
Senator Lane should not be confused with James Henry Lane (1833–1907), who served on the Confederate side during the Civil War, attaining the rank of brigadier-general in 1862, and after the war was professor of natural philosophy and military tactics in the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College from 1872 to 1880, and professor of civil engineering and drawing in the Alabama Polytechnic Institute from 1882 until his death.
LANESSAN, JEAN MARIE ANTOINE DE (1843– ),
French statesman and naturalist, was born at Sainte-André de
Cubzac (Gironde) on the 13th of July 1843. He entered the
navy in 1862, serving on the East African and Cochin-China
stations in the medical department until the Franco-German
War, when he resigned and volunteered for the army medical
service. He now completed his studies, taking his doctorate
in 1872. Elected to the Municipal Council of Paris in 1879, he
declared in favour of communal autonomy and joined with Henri
Rochefort in demanding the erection of a monument to the
Communards; but after his election to the Chamber of Deputies
for the 5th arrondissement of Paris in 1881 he gradually veered
from the extreme Radical party to the Republican Union, and
identified himself with the cause of colonial expansion. A
government mission to the French colonies in 1886–1887, in
connexion with the approaching Paris exhibition, gave him the
opportunity of studying colonial questions, on which, after his
return, he published three works: La Tunisie (Paris, 1887);
L’Expansion coloniale de la France (ib., 1888), L’Indo-Chine
française (ib., 1889). In 1891 he was made civil and military
governor of French Indo-China, where his administration, which
involved him in open rupture with Admiral Fournier, was
severely criticized. Nevertheless he consolidated French influence
in Annam and Cambodia, and secured a large accession
of territory on the Mekong river from the kingdom of Siam.
He was recalled in 1894, and published an apology for his
administration (La Colonisation française en Indo-Chine) in the
following year. In the Waldeck-Rousseau cabinet of 1899 to
1902 he was minister of marine, and in 1901 he secured the
passage of a naval programme intended to raise the French
navy during the next six years to a level befitting the place
of France among the great powers. At the general election of
1906 he was not re-elected. He was political director of the
Siècle, and president of the French Colonization Society, and
wrote, besides the books already mentioned, various works on
political and biological questions.
LANFRANC (d. 1089), archbishop of Canterbury, was a
Lombard by extraction. He was born in the early years of
the 11th century at Pavia, where his father, Hanbald, held the
rank of a magistrate. Lanfranc was trained in the legal studies
for which northern Italy was then becoming famous, and
acquired such proficiency that tradition links him with Irnerius
of Bologna as a pioneer in the renaissance of Roman law. Though
designed for a public career Lanfranc had the tastes of a student.
After his father’s death he crossed the Alps to found a school
in France; but in a short while he decided that Normandy
would afford him a better field. About 1039 he became the
master of the cathedral school at Avranches, where he taught
for three years with conspicuous success. But in 1042 he
embraced the monastic profession in the newly founded house
of Bec. Until 1045 he lived at Bec in absolute seclusion. He
was then persuaded by Abbot Herluin to open a school in the
