in Manchester in 1957, he collapsed with coronary thrombosis and died soon after in Manchester Royal Infirmary. Lynskey was a devout Roman Catholic and Archbishop William Godfrey officiated at his requiem mass. He was buried at Brooklands cemetery, Weybridge, on 31 December. Honours Rupert Bremner gold medal of the Law Society (1910); LLD, University of Liverpool (1951). References Bibliography Obituaries The Times, 23 December 1957 Law Times, 3 January 1958 St Francis Xavier's College Magazine (1957) [Anon.] (1948) "The Bribes Tribunal Judge is Every Inch an Irishman", Sunday Pictorial, December 12 Bryson, G. (2004) "Lynskey, Sir George Justin (1888–1957)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 21 July 2007 1888 births 1957 deaths English barristers 20th-century English judges English Roman Catholics Queen's Bench Division judges People from Knotty Ash Members of the Inner Temple Alumni of the University of Liverpool Knights Bachelor Lawyers from Liverpool