Bibye Lake [SEP] noble title
years before. He became a Bencher of the Middle Temple, London, and was Sub-Governor of the African Company. Shortly after his father's death, he made representations that his great-uncle had received a warrant from King Charles I, dated 30 December 1643, for a baronetcy with a remainder to his heirs male. The warrant had not received the Great Seal of the Realm and so was not valid, but if it had been, the baronetcy would have devolved on Bibye. A new warrant, this
. 1700–12  Sir Stephen Evance
7. 1712–43  Sir Bibye Lake
8. 1744–46  Benjamin Pitt
9. 1746–50  Thomas Knapp
10. 1750–60  Sir Atwell Lake
11. 1760–70  Sir William Baker
12. 1770–82  Sir Bibye Lake, Jr.
13. 1782–99  Samuel Wegg
14. 1799–1807  Sir James Winter Lake
15. 1807–12  William Mainwaring
16. 1812–22  Joseph Berens
17. 1822–52  Sir John Henry Pelly in 1826, Simpson becomes governor of