Henry Lane (officer of arms)

Henry Murray Lane (3 March 1833 – 24 May 1913) was an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.

Personal life

He was born in Leamington, Warwickshire, the sixth son of Rev. Charles Lane and Frances Catherine Sandford Lane. Through his father, he was a descendant of the Lane family of Bentley Hall (later of Kings Bromley) one of whom was Jane Lane, the English Civil War heroine.[1] His mother was a daughter of the Right Rev. Dr. Daniel Sandford, DD, Bishop of Edinburgh from 1806 until 1830.

Heraldic career

He was appointed Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary on 11 August 1849[2] at the age of 15, and promoted to the rank of Chester Herald of Arms in Ordinary on 18 July 1864.[3] He was Registrar of the College of Arms from 1880 to 1887 and secretary to Garter Mission to the Court of St. Petersburg in 1867.[4]

Bluemantle's Cricket Club

In 1862 he formed the Bluemantle's Cricket Club in Royal Tunbridge Wells. Queen Victoria granted permission for the club to be named after his heraldic title and for it to use his mantle and heraldic colours as it's symbols. The club still plays to this day at the Nevill Ground.[5]

Notes and references
  1. Lane of Bentley Hall, now of Kings Bromley Manor, co. Stafford, Henry Murray Lane, (1898, reprinted 1910, London)
  2. London Gazette, 14 August 1849, reprinted in The Times, 15 August 1849
  3. London Gazette, 19 July 1864, reprinted in The Times, 20 July 1864
  4. Obituary in The Times, 28 May 1913 (which incorrectly gives the date of his appointment as Bluemantle Pursuivant as 1859)
  5. History, Bluemantle's Cricket Club. Retrieved 11 April 2020.


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