Joseph Lynch
Joseph Lynch (1845-1904)
1905 Obituary [1]
JOSEPH LYNCH died in Brazil on the 24th May, 1904, aged 59.
The youngest son of Mr. Edward James Lynch of Manchester, he was born in that city on the 28th January, 1845, and educated at a private school, after which he went out to Brazil to serve a pupilage to John Maylor and Co, Shipbuilders, of Rio de Janeiro.
On completing his articles, he secured employment with the Rio de Janeiro Gas Company and subsequently as a surveyor to the Brazilian General Mining Company.
In 1871 Mr. Lynch was appointed an Assistant Engineer on the Macahe and Campos Railway, under his brother, Edward Lynch, the Contractor for the whole of the works, and after acting in a similar capacity on various lines forming part of the Leopoldina system, he became Chief Engineer and Superintendent of that railway in 1878, holding the position until 1882; when he was appointed Consulting Engineer to the Company.
For the last 4 or 5 years before his death, he had the general management of the manganese mines at Miguel Burnier, and in this occupation contracted the malady to which he succumbed. Mr. Lynch was much esteemed by his professional colleagues in Brazil.
He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution on the 10th January, 1882.