On James Lane's death, the baronetcy became extinct, and his estate passed to his great-nephew John Bell—the only grandson of his eldest sister Mary—who then changed his surname, by private Act of Parliament (
12 Geo. 2. c. 33), to Lane as a condition of the inheritance,[2] thereby becoming John Bell Lane.
Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, 2nd Baronet (7 June 1897–1972). He attended Winchester College, worked in a
field hospital in France in World War I, and then joined the RFC. He had his own pharmaceutical Company, Kaylene Ltd, founded in 1928. He joined the
Special Constabulary in 1926 and between 1951 and 1958 he was Commandant in Chief of the Specials. He was appointed a
CBE. He married in Marylebone 29 May 1937, Fritzi Szamvald Markus (born 25 August 1907, died Westminster 2 Dec 1976). He had one daughter. On his death, the baronetcy became extinct.