Sir Henry Lynch, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Lynch, 1st Baronet was an Irish knight and land agent.
Lynch was the eldest of the 12 sons of Nicholas Lynch fitz Stephen and great-grandson of Mayor Arthur Lynch. He was a land agent for Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde; their surviving correspondence from c.1617 to c.1632 was published in 1996. He was a mentor to his stepson Patrick D'Arcy and his nephew Richard Martyn, later senior political figures of Confederate Ireland.
He was among the first of his family to become a lawyer, and several of his younger sons followed him into this profession, as did, under his influence, D'Arcy, Martyn, Geoffrey Browne and subsequent generations of The Tribes of Galway.
The baronetcy was created for Henry Lynch on 8 June 1622.
Lynch is said by some to have been knighted in 1627.
He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Richard Martyn and the widow of James D'Arcy. They had 3 sons and 3 daughters and was succeeded by Sir Robuck Lynch, 2nd Baronet, Mayor of Galway for 1638–39. His descendants included:
