H. F. B. Lynch
Henry Finnis Blosse Lynch | |
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Member of Parliament for Ripon | |
In office 1906–1910 | |
Personal details | |
Born | London | 18 April 1862
Died | 24 November 1913 Calais, France | (aged 51)
Henry Finnis Blosse Lynch,
Biography
Lynch was the only son of the Mesopotamian explorer
Lynch was admitted as a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Bowyers of the City of London in 1888.
Lynch was elected at the
Lynch died, unmarried, of pneumonia in a hotel in Calais in 1913.
Travels to Armenia
Lynch wrote a two-volume book on his travels to
It continued to be praised in subsequent decades. Martin Conway described it in 1916 as a "classical work on the country" and added that his "journeys in Armenia and close study of the country made him beyond question the greatest recent authority upon it."[15] Charles Dowsett called it, in 1962, the "best book by an Englishman on any aspect of Armenian studies."[16] Jean-Michel Thierry wrote in 1987 that the publication, "with its lively style, good documentation, abundant illustrations, enjoyed the considerable success it deserved."[17] Christina Maranci noted that Lynch's travel contain the "first modern western study of Armenian architecture" and suggested that he "deserves much more attention than he has yet received."[4]
In 2015, a first edition of his two-volume book, Armenia. Travels and Studies, sold for £2,000 at Sotheby's.[18]
References
- ^ a b "Lynch, Henry Finnis Blosse (LNC880HF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Arkun, Aram (16 October 2018). "Visiting Lecturer from England Sheds Light on Armenian Origins of English Travel Writer H. F. B. Lynch". The Armenian Mirror-Spectator. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ "Armenian Architecture - VirtualANI - Travellers' Accounts of Ani: H. F. B. Lynch in 1893". www.virtualani.org. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ OCLC 40827094.
- ^ a b 'Mr. H. F. B. Lynch', The Times, 26 November 1913, p. 11
- ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
- ISBN 9780857285157.
- ^ "Collections Online | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ "akg-images -". www.akg-london.co.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ Lynch, H.F.B.(1901). Armenia: Travels and Studies. Volume I: The Russian Provinces. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- ^ Lynch, H.F.B. (1901). Armenia: Travels and Studies. Volume II: The Turkish Provinces. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- JSTOR 2840500.
- JSTOR 1775362.
- ^ Conway, Martin (19 February 1916). "Churches of northern Armenia". Country Life. 39: 245–247.
- ISSN 0016-7398.
In Armenia--travels and studies (London, 1901), in the reviewer's opinion the best book by an Englishman on any aspect of Armenian studies, H. F. B. Lynch noted...
- ISBN 0-8109-0625-2.
- ^ "(#798) Lynch, Henry Finnis Blosse". Sotheby's.