Charles Lynam

In 1857 Lynam married Lucy (1834–1906), daughter of local historian Dr Robert Garner, author of The Natural History of Staffordshire.

[1][5] In 1882 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and in 1895 he brought their annual national Congress to Stoke.

His first published paper was on Croxden in 1868 and thereafter he continued to write for archaeological journals, and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1895.

The Club, in their annual Proceedings of 1892, also noted his tireless but more informal work in preventing damage to the remaining antiquities of the district: his portrait ought to be painted with a drawn sword in his hand, keeping off the restoring vandals from our ancient camps and beautiful mediaeval architecture, all traces of which he so jealously guards.

[6] He also saw the usefulness of communicating with the public on such matters, and in 1921 the Field Club noted of him that: Much of it [his archaeological writing] was only published in casual form in newspapers.Even in his very old age, he continued to publish valuable new scholarly work in archaeology, such as his monograph Croxden Abbey (1911) which he produced when he was 82 years of age.