H. F. B. Lynch
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Henry Finnis Blosse Lynch, MA
, FRGS (18 April 1862, London
– 24 November 1913, Calais
) was a traveller, businessman, and British
Liberal
Member of Parliament
.
, 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, and Trinity College, Cambridge
. 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.
He died of pneumonia at Calais in 1913.
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
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, FRGS (18 April 1862, London
London
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– 24 November 1913, Calais
Calais
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) was a traveller, businessman, and British
United Kingdom
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Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)
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Member of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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.
Biography
Lynch was the only son of the Mesopotamian explorer Thomas Kerr LynchThomas Kerr Lynch
Thomas Kerr Lynch, Irish explorer, 1818-91.A younger brother of Henry Blosse Lynch , Thomas was born at Party House, Ballinrobe to Major Henry Blosse Lynch. The major had served in the 73rd Regiment and had an estate of fifteen hundred acres north of Ballinrobe...
, of a landed Irish family based at Partry House, County Mayo
County Mayo
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, and Harriet Taylor, the daughter of Colonel Robert Taylor, a British political resident at Baghdad
Baghdad
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, and his Armenian wife. He was educated at Eton College
Eton College
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, the University of Heidelberg, and Trinity College, Cambridge
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. Although called to the bar from the Middle Temple
Middle Temple
The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers; the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn...
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
United Kingdom general election, 1906
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as Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for Ripon
Ripon (UK Parliament constituency)
Ripon was a constituency sending members to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1983, centred on the city of Ripon in North Yorkshire.-History:...
, but was defeated at the January 1910 general election.
He died of pneumonia at Calais in 1913.