John Lynch (historian)


John Lynch was an English historian who served as Professor of Latin American History at the University of London. He spent most of his academic career at University College, and then from 1974 to 1987 as Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies. The main focus of his work was Spanish America in the period 1750–1850.

Life and education

John Lynch was born on 11 January 1927 in Boldon, County Durham, in northern England. He married Wendy Kathleen Norman in 1960, both Catholic. They had 5 children.
Lynch studied at the University of Edinburgh, and at the University of London. He served in the British Army after World War II from 1945 to 1948. He then taught at the University of Liverpool and, from 1961 taught at the University of London. He was the director for the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London from 1974 until his retirement in 1987.
The scope of his work expanded over the years: from the River Plate area to Latin America as a whole; and from the 18th to the 19th centuries.
He died on 4 April 2018 at the age of 91.

Books

Spanish Colonial Administration, 1782-1810 Spanish Colonial Administration 1782-1810: The Intendant System in the Viceroyalty of the Rio De La Plata Spain under the Habsburgs Spain under the Habsburgs vol. I and II co-author R. A. Humphreys The Origins of Latin American Revolutions 1808-1826 Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas The Spanish American Revolutions 1808-1826 Bourbon Spain, 1700-1808 Caudillos in Spanish America, 1800-1850 Spain, 1516-1598: from nation state to world empire The Hispanic world in crisis and change, 1598-1700 Massacre in the Pampas, 1872: Britain and Argentina in the age of migration Simon Bolivar: A Life San Martin: Argentine Soldier, American Hero