John Lynch (Australian politician)

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John Lynch
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Werriwa
In office
5 September 1914 – 13 December 1919
Preceded byAlfred Conroy
Succeeded byBert Lazzarini
Personal details
Born1862
Young, New South Wales
Died15 June 1941 (aged 78–79)
NationalityAustralian
Political partyLabor (1914–17)
Nationalist (1917–19)
OccupationRoad contractor

John Lynch (1862 – 15 June 1941) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1914 to 1919, initially for the Labor Party before joining the Nationalist Party following the 1916 Labor split.

Born in Young, New South Wales, Lynch was educated at St Mary's Denominational School before becoming a mining, road and railway contractor and dam sinker along with his father and brothers. In 1890, after being injured in a workplace accident, he selected land at Thuddungra, establishing and clearing the 1400-acre "Glenachrawn" property. He largely grew wheat on the property, but also experimented in cotton-growing. Lynch was a foundation councillor and deputy president for seven years of the Burrangong Shire, a member of the Young Land Board, a member of the local Pastures Protection Board and a justice of the peace. Lynch was an active member of the Australian Workers' Union and Young Political Labor League and was a prominent member of the Hibernian Society.[1][2][3][4][5] He had initially been endorsed as the Labor candidate for the 1912 Werriwa by-election, but was forced to withdraw due to procedural issues with his nomination.[6]

In 1914, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Werriwa, defeating Liberal MP Alfred Conroy. Lynch was one of the Labor members who left the party in the 1916 Labor split over conscription in World War I, walking out of caucus in support of expelled Prime Minister Billy Hughes in November and being formally expelled from the party himself in December. Lynch joined the new Nationalist Party along with the other MPs involved in the split and won re-election as a Nationalist in 1917, but was defeated in 1919 by Labor's Bert Lazzarini.[7][8][9]

After his political defeat, Lynch returned to farming at "Glenachrawn" and was a prolific "writer to the press of letters and articles on rural matters". After three years of failing health, he died at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Young in 1941.[1][10]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "DEATH OF JOHN LYNCH, EX-M.P." Cootamundra Herald. New South Wales, Australia. 20 June 1941. p. 2. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "Mr. JOHN LYNCH". Co-operator. Vol. X, no. 29. New South Wales, Australia. 16 July 1914. p. 8. Retrieved 8 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "MR. JOHN LYNCH". The Daily Telegraph. No. 10973. New South Wales, Australia. 24 July 1914. p. 11. Retrieved 8 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "WERRIWA FEDERAL CANDIDATE". Freeman's Journal. Vol. LXIV, no. 3941. New South Wales, Australia. 2 July 1914. p. 24. Retrieved 8 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "COTTON GROWING". The Young Chronicle. Vol. 50, no. 29. New South Wales, Australia. 11 April 1924. p. 2. Retrieved 8 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "MR. LYNCH REPLIES TO COOK AND CONROY". Co-operator. Vol. VIII, no. 18. New South Wales, Australia. 2 May 1912. p. 4. Retrieved 8 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ Carr, Adam (2008). "Australian Election Archive". Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive. Archived from the original on 17 July 2007. Retrieved 31 May 2008.
  8. ^ "MORE EXPULSIONS". Daily Mail. No. 4284. Brisbane. 12 December 1916. p. 7. Retrieved 8 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ "LABOR CAUCUS EXPELS HUGHES". Daily Mercury. Queensland, Australia. 15 November 1916. p. 3. Retrieved 8 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ^ "MR. JOHN LYNCH". Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate. New South Wales, Australia. 19 June 1941. p. 1. Retrieved 8 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
Parliament of Australia
Preceded by Member for Werriwa
1914 – 1919 		Succeeded by
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