The John Bargrave Collection
John Lake (5 Dec 1624 - 30 Aug 1689)
Clergyman, ordained in 1647 and graduated D.D. at Cambridge in 1661. He was Vicar of Leeds, 1661–1663 and held various offices in Yorkshire, London, and elsewhere in England, including the bishoprics of Bristol and of Chichester. He was Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1682 to 1684, retaining residency at York until 1684 (having spent one summer on the Isle of Man), when he became Bishop of Bristol. Thoresby records attending a service at his own parish church where he heard Lake preach (1 June 1684, Diary, 1.175 and 2.432). It was probably around this time that the Bishop gave Thoresby some curiosities from the Isle of Man. He almost certainly the "Right Reverend Bishop of Man" whom Thoresby names as donor of a travel permit issued by the "Divan" of Algiers in 1663.Dictionary of National Biography entry: ttps://doi-org.cyber.usask.ca/10.1093/ref:odnb/15902 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lake_(bishop) Roles: Donator of object(s)
Relevant locations: Birth place in Hallifax
Educated at St John's College (Cambridge)
Lived at or near Leeds
Lived at or near York
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