Estanislao Lynch
Estanislao José Antonio Lynch y Roo, was an Argentine Officer, the brother of the famous landowner of the "Rio de la Plata" captain Patricio Lynch and the grandson of an Irish immigrant, also Patrick Lynch. Estanislao was the third son of Justo Pastor Lynch (1755–1830) and Ana Bernardo Roo (d.1836).
His career
During his period as an Officer in the Argentinian Army of the Andes protected his territory and liberated from the Spanish Crown, On 2 January 1817 the Buenos Aires city council appointed Estanislao Lynch as the major of Barracas.
His family
Along with Chilean exiles and the Army of the Andes, he crossed the Andes to help liberate Chile. Eventually he retired from the army and expanded the family's businesses to Valparaiso where he married Carmen Solo de Zaldívar y Rivero, and settled in Chile with issue.
His son Patricio Lynch became an officer in the Chilean Navy and eventually reaching the rank of Admiral. He was also appointed Chilean Ambassador to Madrid.
References
- Coghlan, Eduardo A., Los Irlandeses en la Argentina: Su Actuación y Descendencia (Buenos Aires, 1987), p. 626.
- Buenos Aires City Council, Archivo General de la Nación, Series IV, Vol. VII, Sections LXXIV to LXXIX, 1816 and 1817 (Buenos Aires, 1930).
- Dictionary of Irish Latin American Biography, by Gonzalo Cané