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|branch= |unit= |battles=Napoleonic Wars |awards=Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |laterwork= }} Admiral Sir Willoughby Thomas Lake KCB (8 January 1773 – 18 February 1847) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, North American Station. ==Naval career== Born the son of Sir James Winter Lake, 3rd Baronet and Joyce Crowther,〔(Ancestors of BBC )〕 Lake joined the Royal Navy around 1790. By 1795 he was in command of the sloop HMS ''Rattler''.〔(Michael Phillips' Ships of the Old Navy )〕 He was promoted to post captain in 1796.〔(National Archives ADM 9/2/2 )〕 In April 1803 he took command of . In her he captured four privateers before leaving her in June 1806 for HMS ''Gibraltar'', the ship in which, in 1807, he chased Napoleon Bonaparte's brother along the French coast.〔James, Vol. 4, p. 207〕 He also commanded during an attack on Santander in 1812.〔(Naval History of Great Britain, Vol.6 )〕 He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, North American Station in 1824 and was promoted to Admiral of the White in 1842.〔(Monumental Inscriptions of St Luke's Church, Woolwich )〕〔(Naval Brevet ) The Sydney Herald, 16 April 1842〕
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