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LYNN, FRANCIS, brother of John Lynn (qv); b. 2 Nov 1675; adm.; Min. Can. 1687; KS (Capt. ) 1689; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1691, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1691, scholar 8 Apr 1692; BA 1694/5; Clerk, Admiralty Dec 1702 – Feb 1706; Secretary to Commissioners for Sick and Wounded Seamen Feb 1706 – May 1715, when office abolished; Secretary to Royal African Society from 11 Jun 1720; an account of his expenses at Westminster and Cambridge is printed from his diary in C. B. Phillimore, Alum. Westmon., 217-20; among the items is the payment of ten shillings “for the election board and putting up my name in gold letters on the tables”, which proves the existence of the custom in the old chamber of the Queen Scholars; lic. to m. 1696/7 Mary Thomson, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, dau. of Elizabeth Moreland, alias Thomson, wife of Christopher Moreland; d. 5 Apr 1731.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.