Sir James Stratford Tynte, 1st Baronet (August 1760 – 10 November 1785) was an

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baronet. Tynte was the son of Robert Tynte and Lady Elizabeth Stratford, daughter of

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. He was a General in the

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. In 1778 he was created a

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, of Dunlaven in the

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.Burke, Sir Bernard (1912). Tynte of Tynte Park. In A. C. Fox-Davies, (Ed.), ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland'', p.711–712. Tynte served as

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in 1785. Upon his death his title became extinct.

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1760 births 1785 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland High sheriffs of Wicklow Irish officers in the British Army {{Ireland-baronet-stub