H. F. B. Lynch

H. F. B. Lynch (1862–1913), Henry Finnis Blosse Lynch, was a British traveler, businessman and politician. A partner in the family firm of Lynch Brothers, which ran steamers on the Tigris and traded in Persia and Mesopotamia, he traveled in Armenia in 1893–94 and 1898, climbing Mount Ararat and photographing the country, and published Armenia: Travels and Studies in two volumes in 1901, still a principal source for the region before the First World War. He sat in Parliament as a Liberal for Ripon from 1906 to 1910 and spoke on Persian and Near Eastern affairs, and he was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.