Sir Edward Lake, 1st Baronet

Sir Edward Lake, 1st Baronet (1600[1][2] – 18 July 1674[3][4]) was a lawyer who became advocate general of Ireland.

[2] This was nine months after his parents were married, as prior to 1752, England used the Julian Calendar, and the year began on 25 March.

[29] A memorial inscription in All Saints' Church, Normanton, Yorkshire states that he was 77 when he died on 18 July 1674,[4][d] which would point to him being born in about 1597.

He then studied at St Alban's Hall, Oxford (now incorporated into Merton College), and graduated as a BCL (Bachelor of Civil Law), from there on 24 January 1628.

[36] From 1639 he represented Cavan in the Irish Parliament, and helped to draft the clerical subsidies bill in the following year.

This was as a result of "misconduct" while on a grand committee that was set up to investigate certain privileges which had been claimed by Michael Stanhope, the register.

[35][42][43] Following the outbreak of the English Civil War he joined the Royalist forces and fought in the Battle of Edgehill, on Sunday 23 October 1642.

[3] On 30 December 1643 King Charles I awarded him a warrant for a baronetcy in recognition of his services, but no patent was taken out at the time.

[35] The Augmentation to his Coat of Arms included an addition of a second crest which was a picture of him, reins in teeth, sword in right hand, and in some, 16 drops of blood.

The accusations published were judged to be false, and "stuffed with illegal assertions, ineptitudes, imperfections, clogged with gross ignorances, absurdities, and solecisms.

[56] Anne was still alive at the time that Sir Edward Lake made his will in Lincoln on 8 April 1665.

[34][35] A memorial to Sir Edward Lake was erected on a pillar near the west door of the cathedral.

The part of his monument exhibiting the arms, and crest of Sir Edward Lake survived.

The remains of this were exhibited in a small chapel in Lincoln Cathedral, called Bishop Russell's chantry.

[50] A few years before 1907, part of Edward's monument displaying his arms and crest, were fixed to the south wall of the cloister in Lincoln Cathedral.

On 11 April 1907 a tablet in marble with the original Latin inscription carved upon it was fixed below the remains of the arms and crest.

It was erected by the Dean and Chapter, with descendants of Thomas Lake, and members of the Curtois families.

But in 1711 his great-nephew Bibye Lake, son of Sir Edward's heir, Thomas, successfully petitioned to be made a baronet in recognition of his great-uncle's services to the Crown and the circumstances in which the baronetcy had become extinct.