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Thomas Kerr Lynch (1818–91) was an Irish explorer. A younger brother of Henry Blosse Lynch (b. 1807), Thomas was born at Partry House, Ballinrobe (then in County Galway but now in County Mayo) to Major Henry Blosse Lynch (1778-1823). The major had served in the 73rd Regiment and had an estate of fifteen hundred acres north of Ballinrobe. The Lynch family were one of The Tribes of Galway, been descended from Sir Henry Lynch, 1st Baronet who died in 1635. Thomas Kerr Lynch died in London in 1891.