James Lynch

James Lynch may refer to:

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James Lynch (fitz Ambrose)

James Lynch (fitz Ambrose) (fl.1574–1591) was Mayor of Galway from 1590 to 1591.

Lynch was a member of The Tribes of Galway. He appears to have been the first merchant of Galway with an ownership claim to the Aran Islands, becoming involved with a dispute concerning the town's Corporation's customs to the then owners, the Clan Tiege of Aran, and subsequent ownership issues with Murrough na dTuadh Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Lord of Iar Connacht (fl. 1569–1593). Murrough mac Toirdelbach Ó Briain, Chief of the Name, (fl. 1575–1588) made an agreement with Lynch in June that if the Clan Teige should become extinct, he "should be their sole heir and possess Aron and their whole islands."

They eventually passed into the ownership of his son, Sir Henry Lynch.

Lynch was elected Mayor of Galway in summer of 1590. In that year, a belfry was erected in the town's St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church, his name been inscribed upon one of the bells. Just before he left office on 23 August 1591, he wrote a letter to Sir Richard Bingham, then Governor of Connacht, complaining that because the use of French ships had been banned by the government, the wealth of the town was in severe decline.

James Lynch (bishop of Kildare and Leighlin)

The Most Reverend James Lynch, C.M. (1807–1896) was an Irish clergyman who held a number of high offices in the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland and Ireland.

He was born on 23 January 1807 in Dublin, Ireland. He was ordained a priest in the Congregation of the Mission on 18 June 1833. He was appointed Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Western District in Scotland and Titular Bishop of Arcadiopolis in Asia on 31 August 1866. He was consecrated on 13 April 1866. His principal consecrator was Bishop William Keane of Cloyne, and his principal co-consecrators were Bishop Laurence Gillooly of Elpin and Bishop Michael O'Hea of Ross. Three years later, Lynch was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin on 13 April 1869. He succeeded Diocesan Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin on 5 March 1888. He died in office on 19 December 1896, aged 89 years old.

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