March, 1806, of the Marengo of 80 guns, hearing the flag of Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule, after a long running fight in which the London sustained a loss of 10 men killed and 22 wounded. He also, in 1807-8, escorted the Royal Family of Portugal to the Brazils. On leaving the London, as above, Mr. Laffer was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Agamemnon 64, Capt. Jonas Rose, from which ship he was confirmed, 10 May, 1809, into the President 38, Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg. He invalided home from South America in April, 1810, and was next appointed – 8 April, 1811, to the Plantagenet 74, Capt. Thos. Eyles, under whom, during a servitude of 21 months in the Baltic, he came frequently into contact with the Danish gun-boats – and, 22 Nov. 1813 and 26 Sept. 1814, to the Royal Sovereign 100, and Goldfinch 10, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild and John Foote, on the Mediterranean and Channel stations. He went on half-pay in May, 1815, and accepted his present rank in July, 1847. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
LAKE. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 20; h-p., 7.)
Edward Lake is second son of the late Sir Jas. Sam. Wm. Lake, Bart., by Maria, daughter of Sam. Turner, Esq; and nephew of the late Admiral Sir Willoughby Thos. Lake, K.C.B. His brother, the present Sir Jas. Samuel Lake, married the eldest daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Sir Rich. King, Bart., K.C.B.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 April, 1820; passed his examination in 1826; obtained his first commission 20 Aug. 1827; and was subsequently appointed – 24 June and 29 Sept. 1828, to the Gloucester 74, and Madagascar 46, Capts. Henry Stuart and Hon, Sir Robt. Cavendish Spencer, both in the Mediterranean – 1 March, 1829, to the Rattlesnake 28, Capts. Sir Thos. Sabine Pasley and Chas. Graham, on the South American station – 1 Aug. 1831, to the Blanche 46, bearing the broad pendant in the West Indies of Commodore Arthur Farquhar, to whom he acted for some time as Flag-Lieutenant – 12 June, 1833, to the Caledonia 120, Capt. Thos. Brown, attached to the force in the Mediterranean – 2 June, 1835, after 12 months of half-pay, to the Canopus 84, Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy, also on the latter station, whence he returned in the early part of 1837 – and 27 June, 1839, to the Coast Guard. He attained his present rank 23 Nov. 1841; and from 3 July, 1844, until the summer of 1847 was again employed in the Coast Guard.
Commander Lake married, in Sept. 1839, Clara, third daughter of the late Sir Wm. Johnston, Bart., of Hilltown House, near Aberdeen. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
LAKE. (Commander, 1827. f-p., 14; h-p., 23.)
Willoughby Lake is son of the late Admiral Sir Willonghby Thos. Lake, K.C.B.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 18 Aug. 1810; and embarked, 5 April, 1813, as Midshipman, on board the Magnificent 74, commanded by his father, whom he accompanied to the West Indies. He afterwards, between Aug. 1815 and Feb. 1821, served, latterly as Acting-Lieutenant, in the Tagus 38, Capt. Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, and Superb 78, Commodore Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy, on the Mediterranean and South American stations. He was officially promoted 18 May, 1821, and was lastly employed, from 14 April, 1824 until within a few days of his advancement to the rank of Commander 20 Aug. 1827, as Flag-Lieutenant to his father, in the Superb 74, on the Halifax station. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
LAKE. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Willoughby J. Lake entered the Navy 3 April, 1829; passed his examination in 1835; and for his services on the coast of Syria, and at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Nov. 1840. His appointments have since been – 10 May and 25 Oct. 1841, to the Bittern 16, Capt. Hon. B. C. F. P. Cary, and Alfred 50, Commodore John Brett Purvis, on the African and Brazilian stations, from the latter of which he returned home in the early part of 1845 – and 21 Jan. 1847, to a station in the Coast Guard, the command whereof he still retains. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
LAKE, K.C.B. (Admiral of the White, 1841. f-p., 29; h-p., 38.)
Sir Willoughby Thomas Lake was born about 1773, and died 18 Feb. 1847, at Blackheath, co. Kent. He was second son of Sir Jas. Winter Lake, Bart., by Joyce, daughter of John Crowther, Esq., of Bow; and uncle of the present Commander Edw. Lake, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Sept. 1780, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Roebuck 44, Capt. Andrew Snape Hamond, under whom and the late Sir Andrew Snape Douglas he continued to serve (with the exception of an interval between May, 1783, and Dec. 1785) in the Chatham and Irresistible 74’s, Southampton 32, and Goliath, Bedford, and Vanguard 74’s, on the North American, Mediterranean, and Home stations, chiefly as Midshipman, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 22 Nov. 1790. In Sept. 1793, after he had been for a short time attached to the Russell 74, Capt. John Willet Payne, he was invested with the command of the Charlotte armed cutter, employed off Ostend and Flushing. On leaving that vessel in the following Nov., Mr. Lake officiated for four months as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral John Macbride in the Flora, Cumberland, Eurydice, and Formidable, on the Home station, where, in March, 1794, he became his First-Lieutenant in the Minotaur 74. On 25 Nov. in the same year he was promoted to the command of the Weasel sloop, stationed between Yarmouth and Flamborough Head; and in April, 1795, he removed to the Rattler 18, employed as a Channel cruizer. Being made Post, 11 Jan. 1796, into the Proserpine 28, Capt. Lake, while in that frigate, succeeded in capturing, 3 Aug. 1797, the Dutch privateer Unity, of 10 guns and 50 men, in the neighbourhood of Shetland. He went on half-pay a short time afterwards, and was subsequently appointed – 4 April, 1803, to the Topaze 38, on the Irish station, where he took the privateers Napoléon, of 14 guns and 180 men, Minerve, of 14 guns and 111 men, Général Augereau, of 14 guns and 88 men, and El Fenin, of 14 guns and 85 men – 16 June, 1806, to the Gibraltar 80, in which ship he was intrusted with the command of a small squadron off L’Orient, for the purpose of watching the enemy’s vessels then ready for sea in that port – 3 April, 1807, to the Sea Fencibles on the coast of Sussex, where he continued until the corps was disbanded in 1810 – and, 29 Feb. 1812, to the Magnificent 74. While in the latter ship Capt. Lake, being ordered to co-operate with the force under Sir Home Popham on the north coast of Spain, assisted at the reduction of Castro, and in the attacks upon Puerta Galletta, Guetaria, &c. He also commanded a detachment of seamen and marines, to which was added the Guerilla regiment of Campillo, landed to act against the castle of St Ano. During his pursuit of the French from that place to Santander, on their road whither the British were exposed to an incessant and galling fire from numerous small houses, walls, and hedges, Capt. Lake received a musket-ball in his right arm; and on his way back he was further wounded in the head, and for a time deprived of his senses. In consequence of these severe injuries he was for four months unable to discharge the active duties of his profession. He at length, however rejoined his ship, which had been commanded, pro tem., by Capt. John Hayes, and continued in her until paid off 8 Aug. 1815. During that period he effected the capture, 30 Oct. 1813, of an American letter-of-marque, the Amiable, of 6 guns and 21 men
