George Hingston Lake

George Hingston Lake (10 December 1847 – 31 October 1900) was a politician in the early days of colonial South Australia.

George was born in London to Henry Lake and his wife Ann née Trehane.

He served as accountant for brother James and Charles John Reynolds, later mayor of Port Adelaide, who owned, as Lake & Reynolds, a timber merchant's business in Port Adelaide from 1871 to 1877.

He was the first secretary of the South Australian Farmers' Co-operative Union,[4] a limited liability company founded in Jamestown in 1888.

They had one son, Clement William Hingston "Clem" Lake (13 September 1882 – 3 November 1941)