1595 Herbert Lynch

Constituency : Ripon  1906-10

Henry  took  Ripon  from  the Tories.

Henry  was  the son  of  a famed  explorer  of  landed  Irish  stock. He  was  educated  at  Eton  and  Cambridge. He  qualified  as  a  barrister  but  worked  in  the  family  business  exporting  goods  from  Britain  to  Mesopotamia. He  became  company  chairman  in  1896.

Henry  was  defeated  in  January  1910.

Henry's  grandmother  was  Armenian  and  he  published  a  two  volume  work  on  the  region  in  1901  which  made  him  an  authority. Most  of  his  parliamentary  contributions  were  about  the  Near  East.

He  died  at  Calais  in  1913  aged  51.