The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Lake, Gerard

LAKE, Gerard, viscount, an English general, born July 27, 1744, died Feb. 20, 1808. He successively served in the seven years' and the American war, and under the duke of York in Holland, became general, and was Commander-in-chief during the Irish rebellion of 1797–'8. In 1800 he went to India in the same capacity, and achieved victory after victory during the Mahratta war (1803), storming Alighur, occupying Delhi and making the old and blind Mogul emperor Shah Allum the vassal of England, capturing Agra, and winning a decisive battle near Laswaree (Nov. 1), which brought the districts N. of the Chumbul into British possession, and for which he was made a baron (Sept. 1, 1804). Subsequently he was engaged in warfare against Holkar (1804–'5), and after his return to England he was made a viscount, Oct. 31, 1807. The third viscount, Warwick Lake, dying June 24, 1848, without male issue, the title became extinct.