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English banker, magistrate and cricketer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Ward Claypon Lane-Claypon[lower-alpha 1] (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]
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.
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]
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.
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