Patrick Gregory Lynch (10 February 1866 – 9 December 1947) was an Irish barrister who served as Attorney General of Ireland from 1936 to 1941.
[2] He was an unsuccessful Irish Parliamentary Party candidate in the 1917 East Clare by-election, losing to Éamon de Valera.
[2] In a Seanad Éireann by-election held on 28 September 1934, he was elected as a Fianna Fáil Senator, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Arthur Vincent, serving until the body's abolition in 1936.
Maurice Healy in his memoir "The Old Munster Circuit" praised Lynch's outstanding integrity and strength of character,[2] and while he was not normally an admirer of Éamon de Valera, praised him for an inspired choice of Lynch as Attorney General.
His youngest brother James, was state solicitor for Clare under the Cumann na nGaedheal government.