Richard Stuart Lake

The Honourable Sir Richard Stuart Lake KCMG
Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories for Grenfell
In office November 4, 1898 – October 9, 1900
Preceded by	District established
Succeeded by	Himself
In office March 22, 1901 – November 3, 1904
Preceded by	Himself
Succeeded by	District abolished
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Qu'Appelle
In office November 3, 1904 – September 21, 1911
Preceded by	Riding established
Succeeded by	Levi Thomson
3rd Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan
In office October 6, 1915 – February 17, 1921
Monarch	George V
Governors General	The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn The Duke of Devonshire
Premier	Thomas Walter Scott William Melville Martin
Preceded by	George W. Brown
Succeeded by	Henry William Newlands
Personal details
Born	(1860-07-10)July 10, 1860 Preston, Lancashire, England
Died	April 23, 1950(1950-04-23) (aged 89) Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Party	Conservative
Spouse	Dorothy Marion Schreiber Fletcher
Relatives	Percy Lake (brother)

Sir Richard Stuart Lake, KCMG (July 10, 1860 – April 23, 1950) was an English-born Canadian territorial provincial and federal level politician from Saskatchewan, Canada.

Territorial politics

Born in Preston, Lancashire, England, Lake was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the North-West Territories for the Grenfell district in the 1898 Northwest Territories general election. In 1900 he vacated his seat to run in Assiniboia East in the 1900 Canadian federal election.

After being defeated in his first attempt at federal politics he ran for his old seat and was re-elected as the MLA in a by-election on March 22, 1901.

Lake was acclaimed to his second term in office in the 1902 Northwest Territories general election. He held that post until the 1904 Canadian federal election when he vacated his seat to make a second run at Federal politics.

Federal politics

The Hon. Richard Stuart Lake

Lake was elected as a Member of the House of Commons of Canada in his second run at Federal politics in the 1904 Canadian federal election in the new Qu'Appelle federal electoral district.

He was re-elected to a second term in the 1908 Canadian federal election winning a hotly contested election by just a 100 votes.

In the 1911 Canadian federal election he was defeated by Liberal Levi Thomson and never returned to federal politics.

Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan

After being defeated in the Federal election, Lake went to work for the Saskatchewan Public Service Commission, he held that job until he was appointed as the third lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan on October 18, 1915. He served for six years, until February 17, 1921, when he was offered the possibility of extending his royal commission; however, he refused.

Late life

He moved to Victoria, British Columbia after his career in politics and lived the rest of his life there.

He and his wife, Dorothy, were aboard the SS Athenia when it was torpedoed on September 3, 1939 and survived.

He died on April 23, 1950.

Electoral record

1911 Canadian federal election: Qu'Appelle
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Levi Thomson	4,298	52.6	+2.9
	Conservative	Richard Stuart Lake	3,874	47.4	-2.9
Total valid votes			8,172	100.0

1908 Canadian federal election: Qu'Appelle
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Richard Stuart Lake	3,833	50.3
	Liberal	J.T. Brown	3,781	49.7
Total valid votes			7,614	100.0

External links

• Archives of the Northwest Territories Legislature 1876 - 1905
• Richard Stuart Lake – Parliament of Canada biography
• Biography Richard Stuart Lake Saskatchewan Encyclopedia Deprecated link archived 1 January 2013 at archive.today