Charles Lynam FRIBA FSA JP
1829 to 21 February 1921
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1829
He was born in 1829 at Colwich, in
Staffordshire and lived in the reigns of five English monarchs. (Skipper Lynam’s Diary, 25 February 1921)
1841
He was educated at Christ’s Hospital (then in
central London) and made his first journeys to school in the old stage coaches. (Skipper
Lynam’s Diary, 25 February
1921)
1841 Census – Christ’s Hospital,
Christ Church, City of London
Chales Lynam, 12
1851
After an apprenticeship he joined his father,
who was borough surveyor of Stoke, and on his father’s death he started for
himself as architect and surveyor and continued in active work until the
outbreak of war in 1914. (Skipper
Lynam’s Diary, 25 February
1921)
1851 Census – 13 Glebe Street, Stoke on Trent
George Lynam, 53, architect (born 1798)
Hannah Lynam, 47 (born Caudlon, Staffordshire, 1804)
Mary Lynam, 24, schoolmistress (born Hanley, Staffordshire,
1827)
Charles Lynam, 22, architect (born Haywood, Staffordshire, 1829)
Robert Lynam, 17 (born Stoke on Trent 1834)
Edmund Lynam, 8 (born Stoke on Trent 1843)
Ann Davenal,
19, domestic servant
1857
Charles Lynam married Lucy Emma Garner at Stoke on Trent in
the third quarter of 1857 (GRO Volume 6B page 251).
1871
1871 Census – The Quarry, Stoke on
Trent
Charles Lynam, 42, architect and surveyor, born Colwich,
Staffordshire 1829
Lucy E Lynam, 37, born London 1834
Charles C Lynam, 12, born Stoke on Trent 1859
Robert G Lynam, 11, born Stoke on Trent 1860
George Lynam, 10, born Stoke on Trent 1861
Lucy E Lynam, 8, born Stoke on Trent 1863
Henry M Lynam, 6, born Stoke on Trent 1865
Mary Lynam, 5, born Stoke on Trent 1866
Helen P Lynam, 4, born Stoke on Trent 1867
William V Lynam, 3, born Stoke on Trent 1868
John Y Lynam, 1, born Stoke on Trent 1870
Ellen Keates, 21, Governess
A cook, nurse and housemaid
1881
1881 Census – Hartshill
the Quarry, Stoke on Trent
Charles Lynam, 52, alderman, architect and surveyor, born
Colwich, Staffordshire 1829
Lucy Emma Lynam, 47, born London 1834
Charles C Lynam, 22, born Stoke on Trent 1859, undergraduate
Oxford University
Henry M Lynam, 16, born Stoke on Trent 1865, clerk coal and
iron master
Lucy E Lynam, 18, born Stoke on Trent 1863, teacher of
younger scholars
Mary Lynam, 15, born Stoke on Trent 1866
Helen P Lynam, 14, born Stoke on Trent 1867
William V Lynam, 13, born Stoke on Trent 1868
Thomas R Lynam, 9, born Stoke on Trent 1872
Alfred E Lynam, 8, born Stoke on Trent 1873
Richard B Lynam, 6, born Stoke on Trent 1875
Katherine M Lynam, 5, born Stoke on Trent 1876
James W Lynam, 2, born Stoke on Trent 1879
A cook, nurse and housemaid
1891
1891 Census – The Quarry, Stoke on
Trent
Charles Lynam, 62, architect and surveyor, born Colwich,
Staffordshire 1829
Lucy E Lynam, 57, born London 1834
Charles C Lynam, 32, born Stoke on Trent 1859, school
master
Helen P Lynam, 24, born Stoke on Trent 1867, teacher
James W Lynam, 12, born Stoke on Trent 1879
George Lynam, 30, born Stoke on Trent 1861, surveyhor
A visitor, cook and housemaid
1895
It would be out of place here to enumerate the
many important buildings which he designed in Staffordshire, the North Stafford
Infirmary, many churches, schools, private houses and public buildings. He
designed the present Dragon School in 1895 and its extension with the present
School House in 1910. (Skipper Lynam’s
Diary, 25 February 1921)
1901
1901 Census – 4 Brook Street, Stoke
on Trent
Charles Lynam, 72, retired architect
Catherine M Lynam, 25
A visitor and two domestic servants
1911
1911 Census – Cliff Bank House, Stokle on Trent
Charles Lynam, 81, widower, architect and surveyor
Two servants
1920
In his 91st year he made the design for our War
Memorial Cross, which was erected and dedicated on November 8th, 1920. It was
his and our great regret that he was unable to be present, and that he has
never actually seen it. For the last months of his life
he had a large photograph of it always at hand, and very often spoke of it. (Skipper Lynam’s Diary, 25 February 1921)
Stoke Borough Cemetery – twin chapels designed
by Charles Lynam
My father’s practical creed may be summed up in
the word, work. When he took a short holiday he would
be found sketching or studying the beauty of nature or art from earliest dawn
till outdoor work was no longer possible. Extremes of cold or heat or rain never
stopped him; indeed, he found something to admire and enjoy in every phase of
weather or scene, however unpleasant it might seem to other people. (Skipper Lynam’s Diary, 25 February 1921)
On the Bench in his latter
years he was known as most kind and tender-hearted
towards those in trouble and was a terror to wilful evil-doers.
It may be noted that he became a total abstainer early in life as an example to
others, but that he never dictated to others what course they should pursue.
Every man should follow his own conscience was his creed. He never smoked, he
never read a work of fiction, he had no liking for poetry or the stage, but
grand prose such as he found in the Bible and Ruskin
he loved. His architectural drawings and paintings were of the highest order,
and he greatly admired the Pre-Raphaelite school of
painting. He was one of the great Victorians. (Skipper Lynam’s Diary, 25 February 1921)
1921
Charles Lynam died in Stoke on Trent on 21 February 1921 (GRO Volume 6B page 245). Lynam Charles of Cliff
Bank House Stoke on Trent Staffordshire died 21 February 1921 Probate London 27
June to Charles Cotterill Lynam schoolmaster Katherine Marjorie John (wife of
Ambrose Hilton Johgn) and George Bloore architect. Effects £9427 17s 3d (Probate Records). Lynam. On the 21st Feb 1921, at Cliff Bank House, Stoke on
Trent, Charles Lynam FRIOBA FSA, aged 92 (Chester
Chronicle, 26 February 1921).
It is with great sadness that I must record the
death of my father, Charles Lynam FRIBA FSA JP and former Mayor of Stoke
(1903-4), who died at ‘Cliff Bank’ in Stoke-on-Trent on February 21st, aged 92.
Together with my mother Lucy (née Garner), who predeceased him in 1906, he
brought up our large family of 14 children, ten of whom survive. (Skipper Lynam’s Diary, 25 February 1921)
The words of St. Paul fitly sum up my father’s
long, strenuous and most useful life: ‘I have fought the good fight, I have
finished my course, I have kept the faith.’ (Skipper Lynam’s Diary, 25 February 1921)