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After demobilisation in 1919, he had a great desire to become a doctor. He used to tell how difficult it was then for parents to finance the five years in medical school and how it was his savings and gratuity from years of service which enabled him to attain his early ambition.He qualified in 1923 and the following year gained the higher qualification of MRCP (London) after entering general practice in Nottingham. He was a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps for four years during the First World War, one of the longest survivors of that select group (which became the Royal Air Force in 1918). Research on matters as diverse as lead and cadmium poisoning, disease in the cotton industry, electric shock, noise-induced hearing loss, rehabilitation and industrial hygiene reflect his wide interests.Born in 1897, the son of a schoolmaster, Ronald Lane was educated at Simon Langton School, Canterbury, and later Guy's Hospital Medical School.

At least nine of his staff became professors - a great achievement for a relatively small department. The two-year part-time course for the Diploma in Industrial Health was an innovation which has stood the test of time. Lane gradually increased the staff of his department and the scope of his work. Lane's weekly outpatient sessions at Manchester Royal Infirmary, dealing with industrial diseases and their related problems and rehabilitation, attracted many doctors. These sessions were a source of satisfaction and, indeed, pleasure to the professor and he would often cut short holidays rather than miss them. He also instituted courses for doctors both already in industry and wanting to enter it.