{{Short description|Argentine landowner (1755-1830)}} {{No footnotes|date=March 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Justo Pastor Lynch Galayn |image = File:Justo Pastor Lynch Galayn.jpg |alt = |caption = portrait of Justo Pastor Lynch |order = |office = |president = |birth_date = 9 August 1755 |birth_place = [[Buenos Aires]], [[Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1830|5|8|1755|8|9|df=y}} |death_place = [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]] |party = |relations = |children = |alma_mater = |occupation = [[Government]] |profession = [[Accountant]] |cabinet = |committees = |portfolio = |signature = Justo Pastor Lynch, firma.jpg |signature_alt = |footnotes = }} '''Justo Pastor Lynch''' (1755–1830) was an [[Argentine]] landowner. He was born in Buenos Aires on the Lynch family "''estancia''", a ranch by the River de la Plata. He was the eldest surviving son of [[Patrick Lynch (Argentina)|Patrick Lynch]] of Lydican Castle in [[Claregalway]] [[Ireland]], and [[Rosa de Galaya de la Camera]]. At times, his name was recorded as Pastorin or [[Pastorino]] Lynch in reference to the large pastoral land owned by his family dedicated to horses and livestock.
==Descendants== Justo's fortune was one of the largest in the region, properties, and business he received from his family, in addition, he married the Spanish heiress [[Ana Bernardo Roo]] (d.1836), who doubled the extent and value of his properties; consequently, his sons enjoyed a wealthy life like no other Irish immigrants in the region.
His eldest son Patricio (Patrick) Lynch, born 1789, set up a shipping company. He owned the frigate, ''[[Heroína (ship)|Heroína]]'', which was involved in a claim of possession of the Falkland Islands in 1820. Patricio Lynch is the great great grandfather of [[Che Guevara]].
Another son [[Estanislao Lynch]], born 1793, fought in the Argentine independence war with the grade of colonel. On 2 January 1817 the Buenos Aires city council appointed Estanislao as the mayor of [[Barracas, Buenos Aires|Barracas]].
==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
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