Estanislao Lynch

Born in Buenos Aires, Lynch moved to Santiago de Chile in 1808, where he studied laws.^[1] He became a partner of David DeForest, an American arms trader, sharing 30% of the business.^[2] On 2 January 1817 the Buenos Aires city council appointed Estanislao Lynch as major of Barracas.^[3] Later that year, Lynch enlisted in the Argentine Army of the Andes, and offered financial and material support to commander-in-chief Jose de San Martin. After the army victory at Chacabuco, San Martin named him his personal secretary, with the rank of colonel, in February 1818. In 1821, Lynch married Carmen Solo de Zaldívar y Rivero, a lady from the Chilean high-society just before joining San Martin forces in their military campaign in Peru.^[1]

Eventually, Lynch retired from the army and expanded the family's businesses to Valparaiso, Chile, where he settled with his wife^[3] and issued:

• Luis Alfredo Lynch, naval officer
• Patricio Lynch, appointed Chilean Ambassador to Spain, previously a naval officer in the Chilean Navy reaching the rank of admiral.
• Julio Angel Lynch, naval officer

• 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