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Sir Lancelot Lake (1609–1680) was an English lawyer, landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679.
Lake was the son of
/ref> In 1656 he settled 20 acres of land at Stanmore marsh on trustees, for them to pay £15 p.a. to a schoolmaster at Stanmore. 'Little Stanmore: Education', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5: Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham (1976), pp. 125–126. Date accessed: 12 March 2011
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In 1660, Lake was elected Member of Parliament for Middlesex 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 Cavalier Parliament, 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 Templeogue. Lancelot's son Warwick Lake was later MP for Middlesex.
Sir Thomas Lake
Sir Thomas Lake PC (1567 – 17 September 1630) was Secretary of State to James I of England. He was a Member of Parliament between 1593 and 1626.
Thomas Lake was baptised in Southampton on 11 October 1567, the son of Almeric Lake, a minor cus ...
of Canons, Little Stanmore
Little Stanmore was an ancient parish of Middlesex which is today the residential area of Canons Park in the London Borough of Harrow, England.
Toponymy
The name 'Stanmore' means "pond made of stone".
Little Stanmore was named to distinguish i ...
and his wife Mary Ryder, daughter of Sir William Ryder. His father was Secretary of State under James I. He was baptised on 10 February 1609. He was admitted at Hart Hall, Oxford in 1622 and was awarded BA in 1625. He entered Lincoln's Inn
The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar. (The other three are Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Gray's Inn.) Lincoln ...
in 1626 and was called to the bar
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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/ref> In 1656 he settled 20 acres of land at Stanmore marsh on trustees, for them to pay £15 p.a. to a schoolmaster at Stanmore. 'Little Stanmore: Education', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 5: Hendon, Kingsbury, Great Stanmore, Little Stanmore, Edmonton Enfield, Monken Hadley, South Mimms, Tottenham (1976), pp. 125–126. Date accessed: 12 March 2011
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In 1660, Lake was elected Member of Parliament for Middlesex in the Convention Parliament. He was knighted at Whitehall on 6 June 1660./ref> In 1661 he was re-elected MP for Middlesex in the Cavalier Parliament, 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 Templeogue. Lancelot's son Warwick Lake was later MP for Middlesex.
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