Lynch-Blosse baronets
The Lynch of Galway – who later became Lynch-Blosse Baronetcy – is a Baronetage of Ireland title . 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. Both he and the second Baronet represented Galway in the Irish House of Commons. The third Baronet was a Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland). Forced to flee to France after the Glorious Revolution, his eldest son succeeded to the title and estates. The family seat was , Castlebar, County Mayo. The sixth Baronet assumed the additional surname of Blosse, having married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Francis Barker, heir of Tobias Blosse. The seventh Baronet also served in the Irish House of Commons representing Tuam.
The 17th baronet – Sir Richard Hely Lynch-Blosse – is a medical doctor, working as a general practitioner in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire.[1]
Lynch, later Lynch-Blosse baronets, of Galway (1622)[]
- Sir Henry Lynch, 1st Baronet (died 1635)
- (died 1667)
- Sir Henry Lynch, 3rd Baronet (died 1691)
- (died c. 1720)
- (died 1762)
- (died 1775)
- Sir Henry Lynch-Blosse, 7th Baronet (1749–1788)
- (1774–1818)
- (1801–1840)
- (1825–1893)
- (1857–1918)
- (1861–1942)
- (1887–1951)
- (1915–1963)
- (1884–1969)
- (1925–1971)
- (born 1953)
The heir presumptive is the present holder's second cousin David Ian Lynch-Blosse (born 1950).
The heir presumptive's heir apparent is his only son Oliver Daniel Lynch-Blosse (born 1989).
Notes[]
- ^ "Current Irish Baronetcies". cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
References[]
- "The Baronetage," in "Essential Guide to the Peerage" http://www.debretts.com/people/essential-guide-peerage/baronetage, viewed 17 June 2014.
- List of baronetcies in the Baronetage of Ireland.
- McNulty, Paul, "The genealogy of the Anglo-Norman Lynches who settled in Galway", Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, volume 62, 2010, pages 30–50, https://web.archive.org/web/20140726010936/http://www.gahs.info/index.php/en/journal/21-journal1#62. McNulty, Paul B, Genealogy of the Anglo-Norman Lynches: who settled in Galway, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013, 162 pages, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Genealogy-Anglo-Norman-Lynches-settled-Galway/dp/1492810592/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402920530&sr=1-3&keywords=paul+b+mcnulty
- Baronetcies in the Baronetage of Ireland
- 1622 establishments in Ireland