Sir Henry Atwell Lake KCB (25 December 1808 – 17 August 1881) was a colonel of the Royal Engineers in England.
Lake was educated at Harrow and at the military college of the East India Company at Addiscombe.
He strengthened the fortifications of Kars, and took a very prominent part in the defence, including the repulse of the Russian forces under General Mouravieff on 29 September 1855.
On the capitulation of Kars he was sent, with the other British officers, as a prisoner of war to Russia, where he remained until the proclamation of peace in 1856.
He received a medal with clasp for Kars, the second class of the Medjidie, was appointed an officer of the Legion of Honour,[2] and was given the rank of major-general in the Turkish army.
On his arrival in England he was presented with a sword of honour and a silver salver by the inhabitants of Ramsgate, where his mother then resided, and where his family was well known.