George Lynch (Chief Medical Officer)

Dr George William Augustus Lynch (20 June 1861 – 22 March 1940) was a British physician.

He served as Chief Medical Officer in Fiji, and was a member of the colony's Legislative Council.

[1] His father, William Nicholas Lynch, was a barrister who worked at the Middle Temple in London and Georgetown in British Guiana.

He attended Westminster School between 1875 and 1879, before studying at Caius College at the University of Cambridge and St Thomas' Hospital.

[2] After retiring in 1919, he returned to the UK and settled in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, where he continued to practice.