George Lynch (journalist)
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| Born | 27 March 1868 Cork |
| Died | 29 December 1928 (aged 60) |
| Education | Alumnus of Catholic University of Ireland |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist; Author |
| Spouse | Carmela Lescher (married 1902-1928) |
George Lynch (1868–1928) was an Irish journalist, author, explorer, war correspondent and inventor.
Early life
[edit]George Lynch was born in Cork on 27 March 1868[1] and attended the secondary school, St. Vincent's Castleknock College, and then moved to England to attend The Oratory School, Edgbaston; he was later educated at the Catholic University of Ireland, in Dublin.[2][3]
Career
[edit]He began his career as an explorer looking at the Pacific Islands and Western Australia. He was later employed as a war correspondent by The Daily Chronicle reporting on the Spanish American War of 1898 and later at Collier’s Weekly covering the Boer War.[2]
In his book The War of the Civilizations: Being the Record of a Foreign Devil’s Experiences with the Allies in China, Lynch remarked:
"There are things that I must not write, and that may not be printed in England, which would seem to show that this Western civilization of ours is merely a veneer over savagery. The actual truth has never been written about any war, and this will be no exception."
— George Lynch, The War of the Civilizations: Being the Record of a Foreign Devil’s Experiences with the Allies in China, https://archive.org/details/warofcivilisatio00lyncrich/page/n3/mode/2up
He also held several patents for war-related inventions.[1]
Works
[edit]- Lynch, George (1903). Impressions of a War Correspondent. Project Gutenberg (published 1 June 2007).
- Lynch, George (1901). The War of the Civilizations: Being the Record of a Foreign Devil's Experiences with the Allies in China.
- Lynch, George (1903). The Path of Empire.
- Masuda; Lynch, Takashi; George (1908). Japan; its commercial development and prospects.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Lynch, George (1916). War Wire.
Edited
[edit]- Hamilton, John Maxwell (1 October 2010). Lynch, George (ed.). In Many Wars, by Many War Correspondents (From Our Own Correspondent) (1st ed.). LSU Press. ISBN 978-0807137093.
Personal life
[edit]Lynch married his wife, Carmela Lescher, at St James's, Spanish Place on 18 October 1902.[4] He knew James McNeill Whistler, the painter in the early 1890s.[5]
Death
[edit]Lynch died in his residence in West London on 29 December 1928.[6]
Legacy
[edit]His book The War of the Civilizations: Being the Record of a Foreign Devil’s Experiences with the Allies in China was featured in a 2023 academic paper 'A Book Series Recording Cultural Exchange between China and the West' published in 2023[7] and the book Reporting from the Front: War Reporters During the Great War published in 2014 by Brian Best.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Lynch, George, (27 March 1868–29 Dec. 1928), author and war correspondent". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U199585. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
- ^ a b Will (2016-08-07). "George Lynch 1862 -1929". Forgotten Victorians. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
- ^ "Men at war: nineteenth-century Irish war correspondents from the Crimea to China – History Ireland". historyireland.com. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
- ^ Gray, Will (2015-10-21). "October 18 1902 George Lynch – Carmela Lescher". Forgotten Victorians. Retrieved 2025-06-03.
- ^ "The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler :: The Correspondence". whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-06-04.
- ^ "Obituary". The Tablet: 21. 5 January 1929.
- ^ Guoqing, Li; and Sai, Deng (2023-04-03). "A Book Series Recording Cultural Exchange between China and the West". Social Sciences in China. 44 (2): 172–189. doi:10.1080/02529203.2023.2223047. ISSN 0252-9203.
- ^ Best, Brian (2014-11-30). Reporting from the Front: War Reporters During the Great War. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-4738-4274-8.
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