Arthur Lynch (politician)

Arthur Lynch
Member of Parliament
In office 1901–1903
Constituency	Galway Borough
In office 1909 – December 1918
Constituency	West Clare
Personal details
Born	(1861-10-16)16 October 1861 Smythesdale near Ballarat, Victoria, Victoria, Australia
Died	25 March 1934(1934-03-25) (aged 72) Haverstock Hill, London, United Kingdom
Political party	Irish Parliamentary Party
Military service
Allegiance	Boer Republics
Unit	Second Irish Brigade
Battles/wars	Second Boer War

Arthur Alfred Lynch (16 October 1861 – 25 March 1934) was an Irish Australian civil engineer, physician, journalist, author, soldier, anti-imperialist and polymath. He served as MP in the UK House of Commons as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, representing Galway Borough from 1901 to 1902, and later West Clare from 1909 to 1918. Lynch fought on the Boer side during the Boer War in South Africa, for which he was sentenced to death but later pardoned. He supported the British war effort in the First World War, raising his own Irish battalion in Munster towards the end of the war.^{[citation needed]}