Patrick Lynch
Politician
1867 – 1944
Who was Patrick Lynch?
Patrick Joseph Lynch was an Australian politician.
Lynch was born in Skeark, County Meath, Ireland and educated at Cormeen National School and Bailieborough Model School, County Cavan. He migrated to Queensland in 1886 and cut railway sleepers near Charleville and then travelled to the Croydon goldfields. In 1888 he started to work on ships operating along the Australian coast and in the South Pacific, eventually qualifying as a marine engineer. He worked as an engineer on a sugar plantation in Fiji and then on the Kalgoorlie goldfields in Western Australia. He helped found and Goldfields and Engine-drivers' Association and was its general secretary from 1897 to 1904. He married Annie Cleary in 1901.
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- Born
- May 24, 1867
- Spouses
- Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Died
- Jan 15, 1944
Mount Lawley
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on July 23, 2013
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