Mrs Stewart Lane
(1834-1909)

Volume 1, page 186, sitting number 949.

[This is possibly the wife of Richard Stuart Lane of Brunswick Place, Hove (1852) and of 8 Chesham Place, Belgrave Square (1865). The couple's comings and goings were frequently reported in the Brighton Gazette with their name given as 'Mr and Mrs Stewart Lane.' In the varous announcements of his MA from Caius College, Cambridge in 1858 his name was given as 'R. Stewart Lane.']

Born in 1828 at Beddington in Surrey, Richard Stuart Lane was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1850. He was the English Secretary to the Japanese Legation and the director of several financial companies. On 31 August 1852 he married Emily Eliza Leveson, eldest daughter of Samuel Leveson, sometimes Levison, of 21 Brunswick Square, Hove, formerly of Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park, who left an estate valued at £30,000 when he died in 1865. 

Richard and Emily's marriage produced no children.

In 1869 Richard Stuart Lane was prosecuted for publishing a false claim but he was acquitted. He died on 16 June 1892, aged 62, at 4 South Street in Mayfair, leaving an estate valued at £2313. 

According to the 1891 census, Mrs Lane was born at Kilburn in London in or about 1834. She died at Ouchy in Switzerland on 29 August 1909, leaving an estate valued at £7550.