Lake School
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Lake School. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a name applied in derision by the "Edinburgh rgh Review" to a the example lew to a class of poets who, following e example of Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge, Coleridge, who resided the founders of the school (who resided for a considerable part of their lives and Westof their lives near the lakes of Cumberland nd and Westmoreland), substituted a simple and classicism simple and natural taste for the stiff iff classicism of the 18th century. ENRY NOEL LAKE, SIR PERCY HENRY NOEL, a British soldier. He was born in 1855 was born in 1855 and was gazetted in the 59th Foot in the 59th Foot in 1873. He acted as assistant field en assistant field en gineer in 1878-1879 in the Afghan War, 79 in the Afghan War, and passed the Staff College with honors aff College with honors PERCY LAKES SIR PERCY LAKE won the medal with in 1884. In 1885 he won the medal with Exclasp and bronze star in the Soudan Soudan Expedition. In 1891-1892 he was secretary as secretary to Lord Wantage's Committee on "Terms Committee on "Terms of Service in the Army," and was later Arany," and was later successively Assistant Quartermaster , 2nd sistant Quartermaster General and Chief Staff Officer det Start Oficer, 2nd Army Corps. He was Chief of General le was Chint of General Staff and then Inspector-General, Can- Inspector-General, Canadian Militia, 1905-1910, Division Com- 905-1910 Division Commander, India, 1911-1912, and Chief of 1912-1915. He and Chief of 1911- General Staff, India, 12-1915. He commanded in Mesopotamia in 1916 durin 1916 dur Mesop ing World War. ON, an American naval LAKE, SIMON, an American naval architect and inventor; born in Pleasantat tor; born in Pleasantville, N. J., in 1866. He was educated He was educated at 366 the Clinton Liberal Institute and the . Institute and the in Philadelphia. Franklin Institute in Philadelphia his attention to Early in life he turned his attention to the subject of submarines, and in 1894 years later he completed the "Argonaut," which was the first submarine to operate successfully in the open sea. Following Foil this he designed and built many submarine torpedo boats for the United for States and foreign countries. He was tries. He the inventor of much apparatus in connection Oparatus with submarines and was a memand was a ber of many scientific and engineering societies. and engine
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
or Lake Poets, in English literature , a name given by the Edinburgh Review to a group of poets--Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey. The name was suggested because they resided in the lake district of England, a region of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire beautified by Lake Windermere and other sheets of water. The name was given at first in derision, but it has become a name of honor.