Background
He was the son of Cuthbert Linde or Lynde of Westminster.
He was the son of Cuthbert Linde or Lynde of Westminster.
He was elected a queen"s scholar at Westminster School. Matriculated 14 January 1597 at Christ Church, Oxford, and graduated Bachelor of Arts 7 July 1600.
In 1601 he became a student at the Middle Temple, and succeeded to a family estate near Cobham, Surrey, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was knighted by James I (29 October 1613), made a justice of the peace, and represented Brecknock in parliament February–June 1626. He was a noted anti-Catholic.
On 27 June 1623 a prominent debate on the claims of Rome was held at his London house.
A report of the debate, The Romish Fisher Caught, 1624, was published by Featley, at the command of Archbishop George Abbot. He was well known to Simon Birckbek, and James Duport notices him in his Musæ Subsecivæ.
Lynde died 8 June 1636, and was buried in Cobham parish church, 14 June. The funeral sermon, preached by his friend Damiel Featley (published 1638), contains a eulogy on his life and character.
One, Humphrey Lynde, was a curate of Maidstone.
2nd Parliament of King Charles I.