Philip Lake FGS (April 9, 1865, Morpeth, Northumberland – June 12, 1949, Cambridge, England) was a British geologist and palaeontologist.
[1] After graduating from Morpeth Grammar School (where his father was the headmaster), Philip Lake studied from 1881 to 1884 at the Durham College of Science,[2] where he learned geology from G. A. L. Lebour.
He did research on the river system of Wales,[4][5] on hill slopes,[6] on mountain and island arcs,[7] and on Wegener's theory of continental drift.
In connexion with this important monograph, Lake developed a method of photography which eliminated much of the distortion of the trilobite fossils and showed their original form.
[10] Emanuel Kayser's 1891 Lehrbuch der geologischen Formationskunde was translated and edited by Philip Lake and published in 1893 under the title Text-book of Comparative Geology.