William Lane (cricketer)

William Ward Claypon Lane-Claypon[a] (1 August 1845 – 31 March 1939) was an English banker, magistrate and a cricketer who played in a few first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University and Surrey between 1866 and 1870.[2] He was born at Kennington, at the time of his birth part of Surrey, now an inner London suburb.[3]

Education and cricket career

Lane was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] He played cricket as a lower-order right-hand batsman and a right-arm slow round-arm bowler in single first-class matches for Cambridge University in both 1866 and 1867, and then against the university for Southgate Cricket Club in 1868, all without success.[2] He made 36 and 11 playing for Surrey against Oxford University also in 1868, but played only one further first-class match, a second game for Surrey in 1870 in which he was again not successful.[4] His brother Charlton had a much longer first-class cricket career for Surrey, Oxford University and various amateur sides.

Career

After leaving Cambridge, Lane moved to Lincolnshire where he was involved in a bank at Boston and became a Justice of the Peace.[3] He is recorded as "of Aswardby Hall, Spilsby".[3] Later he moved back to the London area and was a warden of the Worshipful Company of Mercers and involved with the livery company's educational charities; he was Master of the company in 1899.[5] He was a director of the Capital and Counties Bank.[6]

Personal life

He married Edith Stow. Their daughter Janet Lane-Claypon (1877–1967) was a pioneering physician and cancer researcher.[7] He died at Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire. The cricketer Montague Stow was his brother-in-law.

Notes

  1. ^ Born William Ward Claypon Lane, he changed his name to William Ward Claypon Lane-Claypon by royal licence in February 1877.[1]

References

  1. ^ "No. 24433". The London Gazette. 13 March 1877. p. 2026.
  2. ^ a b "William Lane". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d J. Venn and J. A. Venn. "Alumni Cantabrigienses: William Lane". Cambridge, University Press. p. 90. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  4. ^ "Scorecard: Surrey v Oxford University". www.cricketarchive.com. 25 June 1868. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  5. ^ "The Mercers' School". The Times. No. 35891. London. 26 July 1899. p. 7.
  6. ^ "Capital and Counties Bank (Limited)". The Times. No. 36516. London. 25 July 1901. p. 2.
  7. ^ Law, Cheryl (2000). Women, A Modern Political Dictionary. I.B.Tauris. p. 92. ISBN 9781860645020. Retrieved 28 July 2017.