Colonel John Lane of Bentley (1609 – 31 August 1667) was the Member of Parliament for Lichfield, Staffordshire from 1661 to 1667.[1] A Royalist colonel, he had given refuge to King Charles II at his Bentley estate following the Royalist defeat in 1651 at the Battle of Worcester, during the English Civil War.[2] Charles left Bentley in the guise of the servant of his sister Jane Lane who was travelling to Bristol (see Escape of Charles II ).
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He was appointed MP shortly after the Restoration of the Monarchy. He died in 1667 and was succeeded by Richard Dyott.[3]
References
edit- ^ Henning, Basil Duke, ed. (1983), "LANE, John (1609-67), of Bentley, Staffs", The House of Commons, 1660-1690, Boydell & Brewer, p. 708
- ^ Erdeswicke, Sampson (1844), A Survey of Staffordshire, London, p. 410
- ^ Greenslade, M.W., ed. (1990), "Lichfield: Parliamentary representation", A History of the County of Stafford, vol. 14, London: Victoria County History, pp. 92–95
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