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W H Lane
Mullion
William Henry Lane came late to golf as a career. He was born in Mawgan in Meneage, Cornwall, in 1850 and spent his working life as a blacksmith. A former captain of Mullion GC interviewed for Lane’s obituary said he had been there ‘from the beginning’. I am not certain when the beginning was: there is a report of play over the Mullion links in 1898 but Jackson’s Register dates Lane’s involvement to 1902 (when he was 51)which makes sense as he is still recorded as a blacksmith on the 1901 census living in his uncle’s cottage with his wife and son, William Thomas, also a blacksmith destined to become a golf professional, but on the 1911 census he is the head of household, still with his uncle in the house, and now described as a golf professional.

In the early days, when members were few, he doubled up as the club steward. He was ‘considered quite a good golfer, taught many a beginner and made a study of repairing clubs and keeping the course in good order’.

He was described as ‘almost an institution’ on the Mullion links and when he retired, around 1927 or 1928, and went to live with his son and daughter-in-law at the Sancreed links, the club elected him a life member.

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