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Sir Henry Lynch, 1st Baronet (died 1635) was an Irish baronet, knight, lawyer, and land agent (i.e. estate manager). Lynch was among the first of his family to become a lawyer, and several of his younger sons followed him into this profession, as did, under his influence, Patrick D'Arcy, Richard Martyn, and Geoffrey Browne as well as many of the later generations of the Tribes of Galway.
The Lynch Baronetcy of Galway – which later became Lynch-Blosse Baronetcy – is a title in the Baronetage of Ireland. It was created on 8 June 1622 for Henry Lynch, a member of an Anglo-Norman family and one of the merchant Tribes of Galway. [4] Both he and the second Baronet represented County Galway in the Irish House of Commons.
This category is for the Lynch family of Galway, Ireland, a powerful merchant family that was part of the Tribes of Galway. Many members of this family served as Mayors of Galway. A branch of this family was elevated to the baronetage, as the Lynch baronets of Galway. Another branch became prominent in politics and culture in Argentina.
Thomas Lynch, son of Ambrose Lynch, was elected Mayor of Galway in August 1654, while the town was occupied by British forces in the aftermath of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. Following a request by the occupiers, the Lord Deputy issued orders to have the power of holding council removed from the Catholics of Galway. This was implemented ...
Lynch was a member of Galway's most powerful merchant family - his father was Nicholas Lynch fitz Stephen, and his brothers were Sir Henry Lynch, 1st Baronet (agent of Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde and recorder of Galway) and Dr. Thomas Lynch (Mayor of Galway 1625-26).
Lynch Memorial Window, Galway. A legend states that James Lynch, during his term as mayor, sentenced his son to death for "broken trust" and murder of "a stranger", and personally hanged him from a window of his own house. The earliest extant account was written by a Spanish Dominican in 1674. James Mitchell argues that the story is a pure myth ...
James Lynch (fitz Ambrose) (fl.1574–1591) was Mayor of Galway from 1590 to 1591. Lynch was a member of The Tribes of Galway.He appears to have been the first merchant of Galway with an ownership claim to the Aran Islands, becoming involved with a dispute concerning the town's Corporation's customs to the then owners, the Clan Tiege of Aran, and subsequent ownership issues with Murrough na ...
Stephen Lynch fitz Arthur, Mayor of Galway 1546–47.. Lynch was the son of Arthur Lynch, Mayor in 1507.He enacted a statute the warden and vicars of the town should not set any lands or revenues of the collegiate church for over one year, apparently because longer tenures were being given to friends and relatives, which caused problems for the church.