Reg Lane
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7 September 1898
| Born | Reginald Ewart Lane 7 September 1898 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Died | 31 August 1962[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7+1⁄2 in (1.71 m) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 11 st 7 lb (73 kg)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| School | Newington College | ||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative(s) | Albert Lane (uncle) | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | TV & radio executive | ||||||||||||||||
| Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Reginald Ewart Lane (7 September 1898 – 31 August 1962) was a rugby union player who represented Australia.[3] He captained Victoria in the mid-1920s.[4] In his business life he founded the Macquarie Radio Network and was General Manager of the radio station 2GB.[5][6] He became a director of I.T.N. Ltd, a company holding a licence to operate a commercial television station in the Illawarra area of New South Wales.[7]
Lane was born in Tenterfield, New South Wales, the fifth of six children. His parents were Elizabeth Rebecca (née Lester) and Benjamin Lane (1854–1927), a Methodist minister.[8] Within the church Benjamin Lane was "a noted builder of churches and parsonages" in the circuits where he served.[9] The other children of the Lane family were: Rozetta (b.1889, Murrurundi), Ellie (b.1891 Murrurundi), Albert (b.1894, Lismore), Edgar (b.1896, East Maitland) and Florence (b.1901, Parkes). Lane was the nephew of NSW parliamentarian Albert Lane.[10]
Education
Before entering the ministry, Lane's father had studied theology at the Wesleyan Theological Institution at Newington House in Silverwater, New South Wales.[11] When it came to educating his sons he chose Newington College, then at Stanmore, as their school. Lane commenced at Newington in 1912 following his brothers, Albert and Edgar, who had commenced in 1906 and 19011 respectively.[12] Before leaving Newington in 1914 he had captained the 3rd XV rugby team.[13] His older brother, Edgar Murray Lane, joined the 20th Infantry Battalion in 1916 and died at Bullecourt on 2 May 1917. He was buried in the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery.[14]