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Sir Ralph Lane (c. 1532 – October 1603) [1] [2] was an English explorer of the Elizabethan era. He helped colonise the Kingdom of Ireland in 1583 and was sheriff of County Kerry, Ireland, from 1583 to 1585. [3] He was part of the unsuccessful attempt in 1585 to colonise Roanoke Island, North Carolina. He was knighted by the Queen in 1593.
R. L. Polk & Company was founded by Ralph Lane Polk in 1870 in Detroit as a publisher of business directories. In 1872, the company first published a directory with names and addresses of all residents of Evansville, Indiana, plus a listing of post offices in nine states. Additional directories followed in the ensuing years.
Ralph and Amelia had one son, Ralph Lane Polk, Jr. (10 September 1882 Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan – 5 August 1949 Bloomfield Hills, Oakland County, Michigan). He was an executive and eventually a president of R.L. Polk & Co., and had a wife and son.
Roanoke Colony was founded by the governor Ralph Lane in 1585 on Roanoke Island in present-day Dare County, North Carolina. [1] Lane's colony was troubled by a lack of supplies and poor relations with some of the local Native American tribes.
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Sir Ralph Lane, governor of Roanoke (1585–1586) John White, governor of Raleigh (1587–1590) Governors of Albemarle, 1664–1689
She and Sir Ralph Lane of Orpington had three sons: politician Robert Lane was born in 1527, [3] Ralph (later governor of Virginia), and MP William Lane. [4] Their seven girls included Frances who married Sir George Turpin, Lettice who married Peter Wentworth, Mary who married Thomas Pigot) Jane who married first the MP Lewis Montgomery and second Thomas Bawde, Dorothy who married Sir William ...