Patrick Lynch (1715–1789) was an Irish emigrant who became a significant landowner in

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, which is now part of Argentina.

Biography

He was born in

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and was the second son of Captain Patrick Lynch of Lydican Castle and Agnes Blake. The Lynches and the Blakes were two of the 14 tribes of Galway, who dominated the political, commercial, and social life of the city of Galway in western Ireland between the mid-13th and late-19th centuries. The Lynches left Ireland after their defeat at the hands of

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's forces and later those of William of Orange. Patrick left in the 1740s for

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, Spain, and travelled from there to Rio de la Plata, where he was appointed "regidor" (royal representative) and captain in the "Milicias". In 1749 he married Rosa de Galayn y de la Camara, a wealthy Argentinian heiress. His eldest surviving son, Justo Pastor Lynch who was a customs official under Viceroy

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, also a captain and regidor, inherited Captain Lynch's vast land holdings.

Descendants

Lynch's descendants through various branches of the family include the following: * Patricio (Patrick) Lynch, (grandson), who set up a shipping company. He fitted the privateer frigate "Heroina", commanded by the American Colonel

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which went after Spanish ships in 1820. Patricio Lynch married Maria Isabel de Zavaleta y Riglos, a descendant of the Conquistador

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through the Spanish aristocrat Riquelme de Guzman, who was forced by Irala to marry Ursula, one of his

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daughters. Patricio and Maria are the great-great-grandparents of

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, (see below). *

Estanislao Lynch Estanislao José Antonio Lynch y Roo, was a Argentine naval officer and wealthy Argentine, the brother of the famous landowner of the "Rio de la Plata" captain Patricio Lynch and the grandson of an Irish immigrant, Patrick Lynch. Estanislao was t ...

, (grandson) a former officer in the Argentine Army of the Andes, brother of Patricio, above * Benito Lynch (grandson) who fought at

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Patricio Lynch Patricio Javier de los Dolores Lynch y Solo de Zaldívar (Valparaíso 18 December 1825 – 13 May 1886) was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy and a rear admiral in the Chilean Navy, and one of the principal figures of the later stages of the War of ...

, (great-grandson), a rear-admiral in the Chilean Navy, who served in China in HMS ''Calliope'', son of Estanislao, above *

Francisco Lynch Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of ...

, (great-grandson), Argentine soldier who participated in the War of Independence and the civil wars of his country, and the Cisplatine War. Great-grandfather of Che Guevara. *

Benito Lynch Benito Lynch (25 July 1885 - 23 December 1951) was an Argentine novelist and short story writer. Biography Lynch was born in Buenos Aires. He came from a family of Irish origin who settled in the Río de la Plata region since the 18th century. T ...

, (great-great-great-grandson), Argentine novelist and short-story writer of gaucho literature *

Enrique Lynch del Solar Enrique Lynch del Solar (*1863 in Quillota, Chile +1936 in Santiago de Chile) was a painter of portraits, and ocean landscapes, a pioneer of the Chilean Modernist art movement. He studied painting in Paris, France at the École des Beaux-Arts wit ...

, (great-great-grandson) Chilean painter, organizer of the modernist art movement in Valparaiso, Chile *

Nicolás Barrios-Lynch Nicolás Barrios-Lynch (1910–1986) was an Argentine educator and pioneer of the rural libraries movement across South America. After his teaching career, he became a dedicated promoter of public and rural libraries, and the inclusion of foreign b ...

, (great-great-great-grandson) Argentine educator and researcher, founder of Argentina's Rural Libraries movement * Adolfo Bioy Casares, (great-great-great-great-grandson), Argentine writer * Ernesto Guevara Lynch, (great-great-great-grandson) father of Che Guevara *

, (great-great-great-great-grandson), Argentine revolutionary

References

External links

Galway AdvertiserPatrick Lynch, Irish Argentinian families, irishgenealogy.com.ar
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lynch, Patrick 1715 births 1789 deaths People from Galway (city) Irish expatriates in Argentina Che Guevara