George Lynskey

Sir George Justin Lynskey (5 February 1888 – 21 December 1957) was an English judge, particularly remembered for his role in investigating the political scandal that led to the eponymous Lynskey tribunal.

Lynskey was born in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, the son of solicitor George Jeremy (1861-1921) who had himself been born in Ireland and sat on Liverpool City Council as alderman representing the Irish National League. Lynskey had three younger brothers and two sisters and was educated at St. Francis Xavier's College then at the University of Liverpool. He earned an LLB (1907) and LLM (1908). He entered his father's practice as a solicitor in 1910, marrying Eileen Mary Prendiville in 1913. The couple had two daughters.

In 1920 Lynskey took up the profession of a barrister, being called to the bar by the Inner Temple. He practised on the northern circuit, building up one of the largest provincial practices of the time and becoming a KC in 1930. David Maxwell Fyfe, a future prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials was one of his pupils and praised Lynskey's geniality and conviviality. He became a bencher of the Inner Temple in 1938 and a judge of the Salford Hundred Court of Record in 1937.

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