Lane was born into a military family in
Plymouth, Devon, the only son of Major Henry Eyre Wyatt Lane and Maria Parnell. He was one of the first Chief Constables in the country to introduce
motorcycle combination patrols and
wireless communications. He was also one of the few county
constabulary Chief Constables before the latter half of the 20th century to be a career policeman and not a military officer or lawyer. Lane was taken ill suddenly after organising the policing of the 1927
Grand National, having only recently got over
influenza. He was moved to a nursing home in
Malvern, but died shortly afterwards. ==References==