Lake School
a name applied in derision by the "Edinburgh Review" to a class of poets who, following the example of Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge, the founders of the school (who resided for a considerable part of their lives near the lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland), substituted a simple and natural taste for the stiff classicism of the 18th century.
LAKE, SIR PERCY HENRY NOEL, a British soldier. He was born in 1855 and was gazetted in the 59th Foot in 1873. He acted as assistant field en gineer in 1878-1879 in the Afghan War, and passed the Staff College with honors SIR PERCY LAKE in 1884. In 1885 he won the medal with clasp and bronze star in the Soudan Expedition. In 1891-1892 he was secretary to Lord Wantage's Committee on "Terms of Service in the Army," and was later successively Assistant Quartermaster General and Chief Staff Officer , 2nd Army Corps. He was Chief of General Staff and then Inspector-General, Canadian Militia, 1905-1910, Division Commander, India, 1911-1912, and Chief of General Staff, India, 1912-1915. He commanded in Mesopotamia in 1916 during World War.
LAKE, SIMON, an American naval architect and inventor; born in Pleasantville, N. J., in 1866. He was educated at the Clinton Liberal Institute and the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia Early in life he turned his attention to applied in lew to a Coleridge, who resided of their lives nd and Westsimple and iff classicism ENRY NOEL was born in 1855 the 59th Foot in assistant field en 79 in the Afghan War, aff College with honors PERCY LAKES won the medal with Soudan Exas secretary Committee on "Terms Arany," and was later sistant Quartermaster det Start Oficer, 2nd le was Chint of General Inspector-General, Can- 905-1910 Division Com- 1911and Chief of in 1916 dur Mesop ON, an American naval tor; born in Pleasant- He was educated at Institute and the in Philadelphia. his attention to Foil for tries. He Oparatus and was a and engine Ohio, in C blie librars 15,181; ( partic ) Pari fron Fr F to qu e-prize for al book or died in P own about Some inter ed in the emple and of Carb city near Car Inhal Gibraltar there. (lali-ta-vis The mos LAKEWOOD LAMAR a the subject of submarines, and in 1894 built the first experimental boat. Three partly religious, partly political-the LAMAISM (lä'ma-izm), system years later he completed the "Argonaut," which was the first submarine to operate successfully in the open sea.
Following this he designed and built many submarine torpedo boats for the United States and foreign countries. He was the inventor of much apparatus in connection with submarines and was a member of many scientific and engineering societies.