Lynch-Blosse baronets

Lynch-Blosse baronets
Escutcheon of the Lynch-Blosse baronets
Creation date1622[1]
Statusextant[2]
MottoNec temere, nec timide, Neither rashly nor timidly[3]

The Lynch Baronetcy of Galway – which later became Lynch-Blosse Baronetcy – is a title in the Baronetage of Ireland. 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.[4] Both he and the second Baronet represented County 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.[4] The family seat was Athavallie House, 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.[4]

The 17th baronet – Sir Richard Hely Lynch-Blosse – is a medical doctor, working as a general practitioner in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference WW12 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Official Roll". The Standing Council of the Baronetage. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  3. ^ Burke, John Bernard (1852). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Colburn. p. 105.
  4. ^ a b c Cokayne, George Edward (1900). Complete Baronetage (Volume 1). Exeter: W. Pollard & co., ltd. p. 241.
  5. ^ "Current Irish Baronetcies". cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2020.