Modern English biography

times_, _vi_ 647, 662 (1872). LYNCH, DAVID. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1864; called to bar in Ireland 1865; Q.C. 5 July 1884. _d._ Somerville, Howth 27 Oct. 1889 aged 47. LYNCH, HENRY BLOSSE (3 son of Henry Blois Lynch of Partry house, Ballinrobe, co. Mayo, major in the army, _d._ 1843). _b._ 24 Nov. 1807; joined Indian navy as a volunteer 1823, lieut. 1829, Persian and Arabic interpreter to the Persian Gulf squadron 1829–33; second in command of expedition despatched to explore Euphrates route to India 1834–7, commander of it 1837; commanded the steamer Tigris which foundered 21 May 1836; completed map of the river Tigris 1839; commanded a flotilla off mouth of the Indus 1843; assistant to superintendent of Indian navy 1843–51; founded the Indian navy club at Bombay; captain 13 Sep. 1847; commodore in command of a squadron in second Burmese war 1851–3; retired from the service 13 April 1856; C.B. 3 Dec. 1853; resided in Paris 1856 to death; conducted negotiations with Persian plenipotentiary which resulted in treaty of Paris 4 March 1857, for which the Shah nominated him to the highest class of the Lion and Sun. _d._ 6 Rue royal, Faubourg St. Honoré, Paris 14 April 1873. LYNCH, PATRICK NIESEN. _b._ Clones, Ireland 10 March 1817; taken to U.S. of America 1819; ed. at coll. of the propaganda, Rome, D.D. 1840; assist. pastor of Charlestown cath. 1840–44; pastor of St. Mary’s ch. 1844–55; administrator of the see of Charlestown 1855–58, and bishop 14 March 1858 to death, cathedral and residence burnt down 1861; sent on a mission to the Pope with a letter from Jefferson Davis 1862; ruined and involved in debt by the civil war 1865; attended on the yellow fever patients in 1848 and 1871; author of Miraculous existence of the church. A sermon at Second plenary council, Baltimore