George E. Lance, Esq.
(1824-1890)
21 July 1862

Volume 8, page 281, sitting number 10,746.

Born in 1824, George Edwin Lance was the second son of Reverend John Edwin Lance of Buckland St Mary, Somerset. He was educated at Haileybury College and in 1844 went to India. He was appointed chief magistrate at Cawnpore, where he rendered conspicuous service during the mutiny. He subsequently converted a tract of marsh land into a memorial garden at Cawnpore.

On 16 September 1857 at Bradford Abbas in Dorset, George Edwin Lance of the Indian Civil Service married Fanny Sophia, eldest daughter of Reverend Robert Grant, Prebendary of Salisbury and Vicar of Bradford Abbas, Dorset (Sherborne Mercury, 22 September 1857). 

In 1872 he retired on an annuity fund.

[Source: Modern English Biography, Volume II (1892).

George Edwin Lance died, aged 66, at Craneswater Park in Southsea, near Southampton, on 9 April 1890. He left an estate valued at £24,001.