Thomas Lynch

Thomas Lynch, Jr. (August 5, 1749 – 1779), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of South Carolina (his father was unable to Sign the Declaration of Independence because of illness).

He was born at Prince George Parish, Winyah, in what is now Georgetown County, South Carolina, the son of Thomas Lynch. He was schooled at the Indigo Society School in Georgetown before being sent to England, where he studied at Eton College and at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.[1] He studied law at the Middle Temple in London, returning to America in 1772. He became a company commander in the 1st South Carolina regiment in 1775 and was elected to the Continental Congress. He was taken ill at the end of 1779 and he sailed, with his wife, for the West Indies. Their ship disappeared at sea and was never found.

Religion: Episcopalian

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