William Ward Claypon Lane-Claypon (1 August 1845 – 31 March 1939) was an English banker, magistrate and a

cricketer Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

who played in a few first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University and

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between 1866 and 1870. He was born at

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, at the time of his birth part of

, now an inner London suburb.

Education and cricket career

Lane was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. 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. 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. His brother

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had a much longer first-class cricket career for Surrey, Oxford University and various

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sides.

Career

After leaving Cambridge, Lane moved to Lincolnshire where he was involved in a bank at Boston and became a

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. He is recorded as "of

Aswardby Hall Aswardby (pronounced "as-ard-bee") is a village situated north-west from Spilsby, in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies north of the A158 and west of the A16 roads. It is in the civil parish of Sausthorpe. Fr T. ...

, Spilsby". 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. He was a director of the Capital and Counties Bank.

Personal life

He married Edith Stow. Their daughter

Janet Lane-Claypon Janet Elizabeth Lane-Claypon, Lady Forber (3 February 1877 – 17 July 1967) was an English physician. She was one of the founders of the science of epidemiology, pioneering the use of cohort studies and case-control studies. Early life and ...

(1877–1967) was a pioneering physician and cancer researcher. He died at Wheathampstead,

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. The cricketer

Montague Stow Montague Haslam Stow (21 July 1847 – 7 September 1911) was an English cricketer who played in 16 first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and other amateur sides between 1867 and 1871. He was born ...

was his brother-in-law.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lane, William Ward Claypon 1845 births 1939 deaths English cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Surrey cricketers Southgate cricketers People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge People from Boston, Lincolnshire