Lake, Gerard, 1st Viscount Lake, 1744-1808

Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake served as a Lt. Col. during the American Revolution under Cornwallis, and later as a British General during the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the 2nd Anglo-Maratha War, and subsequently as the Commander in Chief of military forces in India. Educated at Eton, he was the son of Lancelot Charles Lake and Letitia Gumley Lake. He married Elizabeth Barker on June 26, 1770, and they had eight children. A lifelong gambler, he left almost no fortune to his children upon his death in 1808. He's buried at St. Michael and All Angels Churchyard in Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England.

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[Letter from Andrew D. Campbell to Elizabeth Upshur Teackle, 1832]

Letter from Andrew D. Campbell to Elizabeth Upshur Teackle. He writes about the death of his brother, Col. John Campbell, who died on January 31, 1932. He plans on sending her an architectural rendering of his home, Ashcraig, drawn by his niece, Marion Campbell.