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Arthur Alfred Lynch 1861 - 1934

Arthur Alfred Lynch was born on October 16, 1861 in Smythesdale, VIC Australia to John Lynch and Isabella (McGregor) Lynch, and had siblings Isabella (Lynch) Martin, Peter Lynch, and Maurice Lynch. Arthur Lynch died at age 72 years old on March 25, 1934 at St Mary's Hospital, in Paddington, Greater London County, England United Kingdom, and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium, Norwood Rd,.

Arthur Alfred Lynch

October 16, 1861

Smythesdale, VIC, 3351, Australia

March 25, 1934

St Mary's Hospital, in Paddington, Greater London County, England, United Kingdom

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October 16, 1861

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Smythesdale, VIC 3351, Australia

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The Examiner. Launceston. Tasmania. 28th March 1934. - AMAZING CAREER. Colonel Arthur Lynch, whose death in London was reported in yesterday's issue of "The Examiner," was one of the most amazing of Australians. He was sentenced to death for high treason, but was pardoned by the King, and lived to take his seat in the British House of Commons. A graduate of arts, civil engineering, surgery, and electric science; fluent in six languages and a practising journalist in most of the countries of the Old and New World; leader of a brigade of irregulars against the British in the Boer War, and a Colonel in the British army in 1918; elected to Parliament, arrested for high treason and sentenced to death, only to be released, and later elected to the House of Commons. - These are some of the exploits of the amazing career of Colonel Arthur Lynch, who was born at Smythesdale, Victoria, in 1861. Colonel Lynch was one of the most remarkable men that Australia has produced. In the intervals of his adventures he produced novels, poetry, criticism and studies in biography and history. He published scientific works in English, French, and Russian. He wrote on philosophy, ethics, and psychology. He even challenged a couple of years ago the truth of the Einstein theory of relativity. He has left, too, a fascinating autobiography - "My Life Story" - which he published in 1924. When trouble with the Boers was brewing , Lynch, who sympathised with them, went to South Africa, met Botha, and proposed that he should be given a command. Forming the "Second Irish Brigade" from all sorts of elements sympathetic to the Boers, he fought with them at Glencoe, Laing's Nek, and round Johannesburg, later on being commissioned by President Kruger to go to America to enlist support there for the Boer cause, where he formed a close friendship with President Roosevelt. - Returning to Ireland after the war , he stood again for Galway, and was this time elected with a large majority, but before he could take his seat he was arrested for treason
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March 25, 1934

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St Mary's Hospital, in Paddington, Greater London County, England United Kingdom
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West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium, Norwood Rd,, in Greater London County, England United Kingdom
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Arthur Alfred Lynch lived exactly as long as the average family member when died at the age of 72.

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In 1861, in the year that Arthur Alfred Lynch was born, on January 29th, Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. After skirmishes - often very bloody - between abolitionist and pro-slavery groups within the state, Kansas entered the Union as a free state.

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In 1877, when he was 16 years old, on November 21st, Thomas Edison announced his new invention - the phonograph. Recording sound was considered to be Edison's first great invention. On November 29th, he demonstrated the phonograph for the public.

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