Arthur Lake (MP)

Sir Arthur Lake (ca. 1598 – 1633) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1624 to 1626.

Lake was the son of Sir Thomas Lake. He was a student of Middle Temple in 1609 and matriculated at New College, Oxford, aged 12 under entry dated 12 October 1610. He was awarded BA from Hart Hall, Oxford on 8 February 1613 and was incorporated as MA of Cambridge on 14 July 1617.^[1] He was of Middlesex when he was knighted at Houghton Tower on 18 August 1617.^[2]

In 1624, Lake was elected Member of Parliament for Minehead in the Happy Parliament. He was elected MP for Bridgwater in 1625 and 1626.^[3]

Lake died at the age of about 33 and was buried at Whitchurch, Middlesex, on 19 December 1633.

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Parliament of England
Preceded by Francis Pearce Sir Robert Lloyd	Member of Parliament for Minehead 1624 With: Dr Arthur Duck	Succeeded by Thomas Luttrell Charles Pyne
Preceded by Roger Warre Edward Popham	Member of Parliament for Bridgwater 1625-1626 With: Edward Popham	Succeeded by Thomas Smith Thomas Wroth

[Alumni-1] 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Labdon-Ledsam', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 (1891), pp. 868-892. Date accessed: 5 May 2012

[2] Knights of England

[Willis-3] Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. p. 187.

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