Estanislao José Antonio Lynch y Roo (1793–1849),[1] was an Argentine army officer and businessman, who took part of the Argentina War of Independence.
[3] Later that year, Lynch enlisted in the Argentine Army of the Andes, and offered financial and material support to command-in-chief .Jose de San Martin.
After the army victory at Chacabuco, San Martin named him his personal secretary, with the rank of colonel, in February 1818.
In 1821, Lynch married Carmen Solo de Zaldívar y Rivero, a lady from the Chilean high-society just before joining San Martin forces in their military campaign in Peru.
[1] Eventually, Lynch retired from the army and expanded the family's businesses to Valparaiso, Chile, where he settled with his wife[3] and issued: