Richard Stuart Lake

Richard Stuart Lake, KCMG (* July 10, 1860 in Preston, Lancashire, England; † April 23, 1950 in Victoria, British Columbia) was a Canadian politician. From 1905 to 1911 he was Conservative Member of Parliament in the House of Commons, 1915-1921 Vice- Governor of the Province of Saskatchewan.

Biography

Lake, the son of an officer who grew up in the county of Westmorland to the village of Milnthorpe. He was stationed from 1878 official in the service of the British Navy and in this capacity in Cyprus. In 1883 he emigrated with his brother in the former Northwest Territories, the parents moved a year after later. Lake worked there as a Vice President of the wheat farmers' association and as a justice of the peace. Apart from a five -month break, he represented from 1898 to 1903 the constituency Grenfell in the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.

At the general election in 1904 was a candidate Lake with success for the Conservatives in the constituency Qu'Appelle. After he successfully defended his seat in 1908 with 50.3 % of the vote, he lost almost similar to the liberal candidate in the general election in 1911. He then worked for the Public Service Commission, the Personnel Commission of the Province of Saskatchewan. Governor General Prince Arthur Lake sworn on 18 October 1915 as Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan. This representative office he held until February 17, 1921. For his services as chairman of the Red Cross- Saskatchewan during the First World War, he was knighted in 1918.

Lake struck a second term of office as lieutenant governor and moved to Victoria, where he still stood up for the Red Cross. From a trip to the UK returning, he was on 3 September 1939 on board the Athenia when the ship by a German U - boat was torpedoed. Lake survived the incident.

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