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'''Alexander Wynch''' (1721 – 1781) was an English merchant, a career civil servant of the [[East India Company]] who became [[Governor of Madras]].<ref name="Love">{{cite book|author=Henry Davidson Love|title=Indian Records Series Vestiges of Old Madras|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h2nkEiSSDaYC&pg=PA1|accessdate=20 April 2012|publisher=Mittal Publications|pages=3–5|id=GGKEY:GE1U0JNYH0Q}}</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
He travelled to India at a young age and began to work, unpaid, for the East India Company at 13.<ref name="Love"/><br />
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Wynch became governor of Madras in 1773. He was removed as governor in 1775, in the wake of his handling of the affair of [[Thuljaji]], the [[Rajah of Thanjavur]] (Tanjore), who in fighting in south India had been dispossessed by [[Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah]], the [[Nawab of Arcot]]. The company disapproved of the change in the previous policy of ensuring the Rajah and Nawab were bound by treaty. Wynch was replaced in 1775 by [[George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot]], governor some years before, who was sent out from England.<ref name="Love"/><br />
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In England, Wynch lived in [[Upper Harley Street]] in London, and then Gifford Lodge in [[Twickenham]]. He died at [[Westhorpe House]] in [[Little Marlow]], [[Buckinghamshire]].<ref name=TM>[http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.asp?ContentID=370 Twickenham Museum, ''Gifford Lodge''.]</ref><br />
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==Family==<br />
Wynch was twice married, and had children by both marriages.<ref>{{cite book|author=John Burke|title=Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0NEKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA817|accessdate=20 April 2012|year=1847|publisher=H. Colburn|page=817 note}}</ref> His first wife was Sophia, daughter of Edward Croke and sister of [[Begum Johnson]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Love|first1=Henry Davison|title=Vestiges of Old Madras|year=1988|page=319|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bl9T4uJcBFAC&q=Alexander+Wynch,+Governor+of+Fort+George,+Madras&pg=PA319|accessdate=31 January 2018}}</ref> His second wife was Florentia Cradock, whom he married in 1755.<ref name=TM/><br />
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He was father of George Wynch, and so grandfather of [[Florentia Sale]], wife of [[Robert Henry Sale]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of Indian Biography|year = 1971|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8AKI2nqPBQC&pg=PA371|accessdate=20 April 2012|publisher=Ardent Media|page=371|id=GGKEY:BDL52T227UN}}</ref> His daughter Frances became notorious when she eloped with [[Sir William Jervis Twysden, 7th Baronet]].<ref name=TM/><br />
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