James Andrew Trehane Lake

A. T. Lake, was a businessman, lawyer and politician in the British colony of South Australia.

[1] The family arrived in South Australia in 1853. e had, with his father and brother, an interest in a sheep station on the Eastern Plains near the Barrier Range, on which they worked for five years,[2] but were forced to leave after a devastating flood.

[3] He studied law in England, serving his articles with (later Sir) Samuel Way, and though he had broken this service for ten weeks to help with the pastoral property, was admitted to the Bar in 1867,[4] and immediately set up a practice of his own, later joined by F. O. Bruce, and the partnership continued for about a year.

[3] In 1871 he and Charles John Reynolds, later mayor of Port Adelaide, purchased John Thomas Fielder's timber yard,[5] which as Lake & Reynolds they ran, brother George serving as accountant, until 1877, when they sold the business to A. Clausen; the property shortly became the site of the Port Adelaide Market.

[3] He was elected to the seat of Barossa in the South Australian House of Assembly, defeating Walter Duffield, and served from December 1871 to February 1875,[6] a colleague of J. H. Angas.