Tynte of Youghal and Ballycrenane was born in Wraxall, North Somerset, near Bristol. Possibly his interest in Ireland came through contact with Sir Walter Raleigh's close friend and cousin, Sir Arthur Gorges, whose family also came from Wraxhall.[36] He came to Munster as an Elizabethan soldier during the Desmond Rebellion. After the wars, he secured possession of the castle in Youghal from the Walshes, an affluent merchant family resident in Youghal since the 14th century who were dispossessed for supporting the Earl of Desmond. The castle gave him a firm foothold in the new economic infrastructure of Munster and he quickly worked his way up the administration, filling the office of High Sheriff from 1625 to 1626. As Youghal developed to serve the needs of the new colonists, so Tynte’s Castle provided an excellent base for storage and organization. During his lifetime, Tynte also acquired lands in the Barony of Imokilly, including the tower house at Ballycrenane, near Ladysbridge, County Cork. A friend of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Tynte was married in 1612 to Richard Boyle's cousin Elizabeth (née Boyle), widow of Sir Edmund Spenser the poet. In time, Tynte's son Robert had two daughters, Catherine who married William Hyde of Carrigoneda, and Jane, who married Major Nicholas Pyne of Mogeely, son of the highly successful English settler Henry Pyne, and was the mother of Sir Richard Pyne, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. Tynte's other son Henry would marry Sir Percy Smyth's eldest daughter, Mabel. Sir Robert Tynte outlived Henry by two years, passing away in 1663. He was buried at Kilcredan graveyard, near Ladysbridge. Mabel Smyth and Sir Henry Tynte Mabel Smyth was the eldest daughter of Sir Percy Smyth by his first wife, Mary Meade, daughter of Robert Meade of Broghill. She married Sir Henry Tynte, MP for Youghal, eldest son of Sir Robert Tynte, the Somerset entrepreneur who owned Tynte’s Castle in Youghal. On 25 April 1661, Sir Henry was returned for County Cork, alongside the Hon. Richard Boyle, to the Irish Parliament. He died soon after this for, in a by-election of 2 June 1661, his seat was filled by Sir John Perceval, 1st Baronet, of Bruton. The Tynte family held the castle in Youghal until 1866 and, despite moving to Wicklow, remained interested in Youghal politics to such an extent that the Right Hon. Sir James Tynte of Old Bawn, Dublin and Dunlavin,