Sir Lancelot Lake (1609–1680) was an English lawyer, landowner and politician who sat in the

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from 1660 to 1679. Lake was the son of Sir Thomas Lake of Canons, Little Stanmore and his wife Mary Ryder, daughter of Sir William Ryder. His father was Secretary of State under

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. He was baptised on 10 February 1609. He was admitted at

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in 1622 and was awarded BA in 1625. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1626 and was called to the bar in 1633. In 1649 he became an associate bencher. He succeeded to the family estates on the death of his brother Thomas in 1653. History of Parliament Online - Lake, Lancelot
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In 1660, Lake was elected

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for

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in the Convention Parliament. He was knighted at Whitehall on 6 June 1660.Knights of England
/ref> In 1661 he was re-elected MP for Middlesex in the

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, and sat until 1679. Lake died at the age of 71 and was buried at Little Stanmore on 4 May 1680. In his will, he stipulated that a schoolhouse which he had built at Stanmore should also be settled on trustees. Lake married Frances Cheek, daughter of Sir Thomas Cheek and had six sons and two daughters, including Elizabeth, who married her Irish cousin Sir Thomas Domvile, of the Domvile Baronets of

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. Lancelot's son

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was later MP for Middlesex.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lake, Lancelot 1609 births 1680 deaths People from Stanmore English MPs 1660 English MPs 1661–1679