ARTHUR ALFRED LYNCH.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 605, 7 September 1909, Page 5

ARTHUR ALFRED LYNCH.

RETURNED TO COJIJIONS. ; (Ily TelccraDli.-Prcsa 'Assoclation.-Ooprrlffht.l ; : London, September 0. : ' Arthur Lynch,: ,who' held - a commission in /the Irish : Brigade,.!and; fouglit against the ('British in -the. Boer' War,' has. heen.roturiicd unopposed ! for , the'. : West ';,Clarb' seat. in tlie' ;Hpusb'-o|..C^fepnV'io'p!®^o.*o^-'Mri J .-J< Halpin/ deceased;. is 1 - '•■ y : ■ A VERSATILE IRISH AUSTRALIAN. :. Arthur Alfred' Lynch was convicted>'of. high' trettkm in.January, ll)03, iol''' haying fought. on the:'side ;, of:- thtf-Boers in ' the South' African 'War.-' v : Ho -was convicted , mid. sentenced ..to -'death,'but- tlie soutenca ivas coniiiiuted to'imprisonment, and .heNvas' tclcascd' on lioelise .a yiiit ldtcr. Iu VJO7 lig ' was'-granted: a ; frto .pardon. . • . -i'/ Arthur Lynch is by' profession a journalist. '•His.-pareais;.wero-':lrish'r. His fatlier «;as a lalul surveyor' nefe Melbourne,: Australia, 1 where tho 'bojv passed , hi# youth.. Ho took ihis'. M.A. at .Melbourne,,went thrbligh.a course.of study at Berliii.University, and: then - settled, in Galway,, the? homo of his people. He plunged into polir tics,'; and:,fought. ;and 'lost at: tho: election .of 1892. , - Then no'went r tb.;Lohdon, and . set. ,to -work to:malto:a:career in ,journalism.;: He did work for; the niagajines,' and: wrote versa. • . Airways' actiyei' always.-struggling,' ho obtained a , post' on an-ovouing papof, anil was 6ent out, to I'Ashantoe . with Sir' Francis Scott's expedition.:Ho_ neglected to obtain ; a pasS'from the War 'Office, however, and got no further than'Cap6' Coast Castle.- . j.'., -■ '> ' -. , After tivojyears'.in 'Paris, where' ho justed..as -special oitrespondbnt,: ho went to South Africa, ; and fought 'oli th6:side,of the Boers during.the Avar. It' may l)o tecalled that years .ago Lynch: took an netiyo part in ail amnesty 'movement in . Great Britain and in Ireland. ' Ho -was-a loadinj. member, of! the Amnesty .Association, .which- had for its object th 6 release, of' John Daly and the other: Irish prisoners, who had been: convicted of complicity, in tho .'dynamite'' conspiracy. The Amnesty Association/received stronc'. support from - Irishmen,. on. both sides of the Channel, and all; the . political prisoners havoUong.sinco been released. , :' In his connection : with the South African .was knowTi" as Colonel Lynch,tind.was credited with organising the Second Irish Bri- : gads. under General- Botha, and, with taking part ,iu the fighting around Ladysmith.: la'. 1901 ho was olected m his "absence for:GalwayCiW by a large majority. 'Ho resided in Paris till ,1902, when he revisited Britain and was immediately arrested 'and put upon his trial fox •high treason. . . • - t Since, his_ rcleaso Colonel Lynch has occupied his spare time studying.medicinei and a degree "has ;been conferred on him by the College of Physicians. ,' A: -London paper ; comments:— vCqloiiel- ' Lynchs '■ versatility is. remarkable.' .Ho. is a qualified,oivillenetoeer-as Well as a doctor of philosophy, - an 'M.A.,' and a USc. ■Ho. is also a poet; has,written a novel; arid how aots as Paris correspondent of the "New York World." ' -' - ■ . ~- ' ...