Tim Lane (Australian rules footballer)

Tim Lane
Personal information
Full name	Thomas Ouseley Blake Lane
Date of birth	(1888-02-22)22 February 1888
Place of birth	Brighton Beach, Victoria
Date of death	23 November 1965(1965-11-23) (aged 77)
Place of death	Ballarat, Victoria
Original team(s)	Ballarat/Sturt
Height	198 cm (6 ft 6 in)
Weight	87 kg (192 lb)
Playing career1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1912	Melbourne	13 (11)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1912.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Thomas Ouseley "Tim" Blake Lane (22 February 1888 – 23 November 1965) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). ^[1]

Family

The son of Howard Ousely Blake-Lane (1846-1913), ^[2] and Blanche Blake-Lane (1861-1938), née Crisp, ^{[3] [4]} Thomas Ouseley Blake Lane was born at Brighton Beach on 22 February 1888. ^[5]

He married Lorna Victoria Penney in 1912.

Notes

1. Holmesby & Main (2014), p.498.
2. Note the hyphenated family name: e.g., Local and General, The Coolgardie Miner, Friday, 31 January 1896), p.2, Marriages: Luke—Blake-Lane, The Argus, (Friday, 17 July 1903), p.1, etc.; also Tim Lane's World War Two enlistment as "Blake-Lane".
3. Marriages: Lane—Crisp, The Argus, (Saturday, 11 November 1882), p.1.
4. Deaths: Lane, The Argus, (Saturday, 9 July 1938), p.8.
5. Births: Lane, The Argus, (Tuesday, 28 February 1888), p.1.

References

• Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. ISBN   978-1-921496-32-5.
• World War Two Nominal Roll: Thomas Ouseley Blake-Lane (V10698), Department of Veterans' Affairs.

External links

• Tim Lane's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Tim Lane at AustralianFootball.com
• Tim Lane, at Demonwiki.