Nicholas Lynch (1827-29 July 1900) was an Irish politician and businessman who served as

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

for

County Sligo County Sligo ( , gle, Contae Shligigh) is a county in Ireland. It is located in the Border Region and is part of the province of Connacht. Sligo is the administrative capital and largest town in the county. Sligo County Council is the local ...

in 1883–1885, as a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party.

Life

Lynch was born in Dublin in 1827, the son of Thomas Lynch. Lynch was elected to represent Sligo in August 1883 following the death of the incumbent, Denis Maurice O'Conor, with 1545 votes against 983 for the Conservative candidate. He did not stand for re-election in 1885, when the county was split into two seats. Tim Healy characterised Lynch in his memoirs as "a wealthy man, who, on the hustings or in the House of Commons, was unable to open his mouth".Healy, T.M. (1891
''Letters and Leaders of My Day''
vol 1, p. 217 Lynch was a director of the

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, and following the default of the

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in 1885 successfully mobilised the Irish Parliamentary Party to move in support of the Hibernian by threatening to arrange a boycott of Bank of Ireland notes, with what Healy noted as an " eloquent and moving" speech to the Party meeting. He resigned his directorship of the Hibernian Bank in 1886. In his later years he was not politically active. He died in

Rathmines, Dublin Rathmines () is an affluent inner suburb on the Southside of Dublin in Ireland. It lies three kilometres south of the city centre. It begins at the southern side of the Grand Canal and stretches along the Rathmines Road as far as Rathgar to t ...

on 29 July 1900. He left bequests of around £20,000 to charitable causes, primarily religious and educational institutions in Dublin.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lynch, Nicholas 1827 births 1900 deaths UK MPs 1880–1885 Irish Parliamentary Party MPs People from Dublin (city) Irish bankers