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'''Sir Henry Atwell Lake''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCB}} (25 December 1808 – 17 August 1881) was a colonel of the [[Royal Engineers]] in England.<br />
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Lake was the third son of [[James Samuel William Lake|Sir James Samuel William Lake, 4th Baronet]], by his marriage with Maria, daughter of Samuel Turner. He was born at [[Kenilworth]], [[Warwickshire]], in 1808.<ref name=DNB00 /> His elder brother [[James Samuel Lake|James]] became the fifth [[Lake baronets|Lake baronet]] upon their father's death in 1832. Admiral Sir [[Willoughby Lake]] was his uncle.<br />
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Lake was educated at [[Harrow School|Harrow]] and at the [[Addiscombe Military Seminary|military college]] of the [[East India Company]] at [[Addiscombe]]. On 15 December 1826, he obtained a commission as second lieutenant in the [[Madras Engineer Group|Madras engineers]], and went to India. Until 1854 he was employed in the public works department of India, and principally upon irrigation works. He became lieutenant on 4 March 1831, brevet-captain on 22 July 1840, regimental captain in 1852, and brevet-major 20 June 1854.<ref name=DNB00>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Lake, Henry Atwell|last=Vetch|first=Robert Hamilton |authorlink=Robert Hamilton Vetch|volume=31|pages=415f}}</ref><br />
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While in England on leave of absence in 1854 he volunteered his services for the [[Crimean War]], and was sent to [[Kars]], in [[Anatolia]], as chief engineer, and second in command to Colonel (afterwards Sir) [[Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars|William Fenwick Williams]]. He became lieutenant-colonel on 9 February 1855. He strengthened the fortifications of Kars, and took a very prominent part in the defence, including the repulse of the Russian forces under [[Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky|General Mouravieff]] on 29 September 1855. On the capitulation of Kars he was sent, with the other British officers, as a prisoner of war to Russia, where he remained until the proclamation of peace in 1856.<ref name=DNB00 /><br />
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For his services at Kars he received the thanks of [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|parliament]], was transferred to the [[British Army]] as an unattached lieutenant-colonel, and was made a [[Order of the Bath|companion of the Bath]], [[aide-de-camp]] to [[Queen Victoria]], and colonel in the army from 24 June 1856. He received a medal with clasp for Kars, the second class of the [[Order of the Medjidie|Medjidie]], was appointed an officer of the [[Legion of Honour]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=21996 |date=1 May 1857 |pages=1573–1574 }}</ref> and was given the rank of major-general in the [[Turkish Land Forces|Turkish army]]. On his arrival in England he was presented with a sword of honour and a silver salver by the inhabitants of [[Ramsgate]], where his mother then resided, and where his family was well known.<ref name=DNB00 /><br />
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Lake was placed on half-pay on 12 September 1856, but next year accompanied the [[Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton|Earl of Eglinton]], [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland|lord-lieutenant of Ireland]], to [[Dublin]] as principal aide-de-camp, and in the following year retired from the army on his appointment as a commissioner of the [[Dublin Metropolitan Police]]. Subsequently he became chief commissioner of police in Dublin.<ref name=DNB00 /> On 25 March 1875, he was made a Knight Commander of the civil division of the [[Order of the Bath]] (KCB) for his civil services,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=24194 |date=26 March 1875 |page=1831 }}</ref> and in 1877 he retired upon a pension. He died at [[Brighton]] on 17 August 1881.<ref name=DNB00 /><br />
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He was twice married: first, in 1841, to Anne, daughter of the Rev. Peregrine Curtois of the Longhills, [[Lincolnshire]]. His wife died in 1847. He remarried in 1848, to Ann Augusta, daughter of Sir [[Curtis baronets|William Curtis]], second baronet. His second wife died in 1877. Of his five sons, [[Atwell Lake|Atwell Peregrine Macleod]] became an [[Admiral (Royal Navy)|admiral]], while two sons Edward and Hubert Atwell were officers in the Artillery, and Noel Montagu was an officer in the Engineers.<ref name=DNB00 /> [[Atwell Henry Lake]], his grandson, became the 9th Lake baronet.<br />
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