Andrew Lynch French

Resident slave-owner on St Kitts, son of John Lynch French (q.v., whose will was proved in 1801). Andrew Lynch French had been apprenticed to William Saunders of Worcester in 1814 for five years as Attorney at law and solicitor in the Court of Chancery, when he was identified as the son of John French of St Kitts and Elizabeth French. His brother Edward A. French died at Andrew Lynch French's property in St Kitts (his maternal grandfather is given as Harry Darell, esq., of Calehill, Kent in this source.) Andrew Lynch French was dead by 1871, when his daughter married John James Saint.

Ancestry.com, UK Articles of Clerkship, 1756-1874 [database online]; CO 152/117 John J H Saint (asks for help in acquiring a probate of the will of the late Andrew Lynch French) [c. 1873]; Gentleman's Magazine vol. 7 p. 654 (December 1859); 'Saint, John James Heath, B.A., Christ Church, Oxon, 1850, from Eton, recorder of Leicester July, 1884, and of Newark 1870-84, counsel to the Mint at Warwickshire sessions 1870, and revising barrister on Midland circuit 1873, assistant revising barrister 1870-1, author of Saint's Registration Cases, a student of the Inner Temple 24 April, 1851 (then aged 23), called to the bar I May, 1854 (eldest son of Rev. John James Saint, of Groombridge Place, Kent); born 27 Jan., 1828; married 2 Feb., 1871, Sarah, youngest dau. of late Andrew Lynch French, Esq., of Lynch's Estates, St. Kitts, West Indies and has issue', Men-at-the-Bar p. 409.