Sir Edward Geoffrey Lake, 11th Baronet 1928-2023

Sir Edward Lake, 11th Baronet, died at Cowgill, near Dent, Cumbria, on his 95th birthday, 17 July, 2023.

Edward Geoffrey Lake was born 17 July, 1928, the third son of Capt Sir Atwell Henry Lake, 9th Baronet CB, OBE, RN (1891-1972), and his wife the former Kathleen Marion Turner.

He succeeded to the baronetcy (cr GB, 1711), on the death of his elder brother, Sir (Atwell) Graham Lake, 10th Baronet, 25 May, 2013.

He married 28 August, 1965, Judith Ann Fox, daughter of John Fox, by whom he had a son and a daughter. The son, Mark Winter Lake, born 26 October, 1968, succeeds to the baronetcy.

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