H. F. B. Lynch

Henry Finnis Blosse Lynch, MA, FRGS (18 April 1862, London – 24 November 1913, Calais) was a traveller, businessman, and British Liberal Member of Parliament.[1]

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Biography

Lynch was the only son of the Mesopotamian explorer Thomas Kerr Lynch, of a landed Irish family based at Partry House, County Mayo, and Harriet Taylor, the daughter of Colonel Robert Taylor, a British political resident at Baghdad, and his Armenian wife. He was educated at Eton College, the University of Heidelberg,[2] and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] Although called to the bar from the Middle Temple in 1887, he eschewed a career in law in favour of working for his family business, Lynch Brothers, a commercial firm founded in Baghdad in 1841 which exported goods from Britain to Mesopotamia. He became the company's chairman in 1896.

Lynch was elected at the 1906 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ripon, but was defeated at the January 1910 general election.[3]

He died of pneumonia at Calais in 1913.[2]

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References

  1. ^ a b Lynch, Henry Finnis Blosse in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
  2. ^ a b 'Mr. H. F. B. Lynch', The Times, 26 November 1913, p. 11
  3. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 444. ISBN 0-900178-27-2. 

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John Lloyd Wharton		 Member of Parliament for Ripon
1906 – January 1910		 Succeeded by
E. F. L. Wood