Sir Atwell Lake, 9th Baronet

Commodore Sir Atwell Henry Lake, 9th Baronet, CB, OBE (13 February 1891 – 27 November 1972) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy and the second Chief of Naval Staff of the Royal New Zealand Navy, serving from June 1942 to July 1945.

His parents were Admiral Atwell Peregrine Macleod Lake (1842–1915) and Constance Mary Turner.

[4] He was appointed a Commander of the Legion of Merit, a military award of the United States Armed Forces, and was granted unrestricted permission by the King to wear this award in 1946.

[5] In the 1945 New Year Honours, he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).

[6] This biographical article related to the military of New Zealand is a stub.