Viscount Lake, of Delhi and Laswary and of Aston Clinton in the County of Buckingham, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[1]
The peerage was created on 31 October 1807 for the prominent soldier Gerard Lake, 1st Baron Lake. He commanded the victorious British forces at the Battle of Laswari, which took place on 1 November 1803 near Laswari village, Alwar, during the Second Anglo-Maratha War. Lake was Commander-in-Chief of India from 1801 to 1805 and from 1805 to 1807. Lake had already been created Baron Lake, of Delhi and Laswary and of Aston Clinton in the County of Buckingham, on 1 September 1804, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[2] The titles became extinct on the death of the third Viscount in 1848.
- ^ "No. 16081". The London Gazette. 31 October 1807. p. 1433.
- ^ "No. 15732". The London Gazette. 28 August 1804. p. 1069.