Lynch, Thomas, Jr. (1749-1779), was a South Carolina signer of the Declaration of Independence. He served in South Carolina’s first General Assembly and in the Second Continental Congress. Lynch was born near Georgetown, South Carolina. He graduated from Cambridge University and then studied law in London. In 1775, while he was serving in the Revolutionary War in America, a severe illness left him a semi-invalid. In 1779, during a voyage to the West Indies, Lynch and his wife were lost at sea.
