Lancelot Lake

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 Sir Thomas Lake of Canons, Little Stanmore and his wife Mary Ryder, daughter of Sir William Ryder.

[1] In 1656 he settled 20 acres of land at Stanmore marsh on trustees, for them to pay £15 p.a.

[2] 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.