Sir Robert John Lynn (31 January 1873 – 5 August 1945)[1] was a British Ulster Unionist Party politician.

Much guidance was therefore required of Roman Catholic Unionist, A. N. Bonaparte Wyse (who later became Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Education in Northern Ireland).

When the Lynn Committee published its report in 1923, its recommendations were adopted and made law by the Education Bill (NI) of 1923.

We have throughout been careful to keep in mind and to make allowance for the particular points of view of Roman Catholics in regard to education so far as is known to us, and it has been our desire to refrain as far as we could from recommending any course which might be thought to be contrary to their wishes.

"The Bill was bitterly assailed[11] by both Catholic and Protestant clerics and was subsequently amended so that its original intent disappeared.