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==Early life and education==
Lynch was born in [[Ilford]], [[London Borough of Redbridge]], on 16 June 1965.<ref
Aged 11, he won a scholarship to [[Bancroft's School]], a [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private school]] in [[Woodford, London]].<ref name=GuardianRiseandfall>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/12/mike-lynch-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-extradited-tech-tycoon|title=Mike Lynch: the rise and fall of the extradited tech tycoon|date=12 May 2024|work=The Guardian|access-date=22 March 2024|archive-date=22 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240822133436/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/12/mike-lynch-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-extradited-tech-tycoon|url-status=live}}</ref> He was later the lead Patron of the Bancroft's Foundation, which was established to provide means-tested scholarship support to enable bright pupils to study at the school regardless of family income.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kitchen |first=The Web |date=20 February 2012 |title=Bancroft's School |url=https://www.bancrofts.org/bancrofts-foundation-launch/ |access-date=20 August 2024 |website=Bancroft's |language=en-GB |archive-date=22 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240822150532/https://www.bancrofts.org/bancrofts-foundation-launch/ |url-status=live }}</ref> From Bancroft's he went on to study [[Natural Sciences (Cambridge)|Natural Sciences]] at the [[University of Cambridge]] where he was an undergradate student of [[Christ's College, Cambridge]].<ref name=Alumni>{{Cite web|url=https://alumni.christs.cam.ac.uk/mike-lynch|title=Mike Lynch|access-date=20 August 2024|work=Christ's College, Cambridge|archive-date=20 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820075219/https://alumni.christs.cam.ac.uk/mike-lynch|url-status=live}}</ref> After graduating he studied for a [[PhD]] in [[Neural network (machine learning)|artificial neural networks]] supervised by Peter Rayner<ref name=raynerswho>{{Who's Who |author=Anon |title=Rayner, Prof. Peter John Wynn | id = U41852 | year = 2024 | edition = 176|publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U41852}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/this-is-the-thinking-computer-s-man-739786.html|title=This is the thinking computer's man|date=22 November 1999|work=Independent|access-date=26 March 2024|archive-date=26 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240326125952/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/this-is-the-thinking-computer-s-man-739786.html|url-status=live}}</ref> where his thesis was on [[signal processing]].<ref name=phd>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|title=Adaptive Techniques in Signal Processing and Connectionist Models|url= https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244884|website=cam.ac.uk|year=1990|doi=10.17863/CAM.14054|publisher=University of Cambridge|first=Michael Richard|last=Lynch}}</ref><ref name=Insider/><ref name=Wired>{{cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.02/autonomy_pr.html|title=The Quest for Meaning|date=February 2000|work=[[Wired magazine|Wired]]|access-date=10 March 2017|archive-date=13 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513111256/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.02/autonomy_pr.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He subsequently undertook a [[research fellow]]ship in adaptive pattern recognition.<ref name=GuardianProfile>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/aug/19/profile-mike-lynch-autonomy |title=Profile:Mike Lynch |newspaper=The Guardian |date=19 August 2011 |last1=Garside |first1=Juliette |access-date=12 December 2016 |archive-date=15 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115072139/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/aug/19/profile-mike-lynch-autonomy |url-status=live }}</ref>
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==Personal life==
[[File:Loudham Hall - geograph.org.uk - 3974851.jpg|thumb|Loudham Hall in Pettistree in 2014]]
Lynch was married to Angela Bacares and they had two daughters.<ref name=GuardianRiseandfall/> In 2023, the ''[[Sunday Times Rich List]]'' estimated the couple's net worth at £852 million.<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 August 2024 |title=Who is Mike Lynch? The British billionaire missing after sailing superyacht sinks |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mike-lynch-yacht-net-worth-daughter-b2599355.html |access-date=21 August 2024 |website=The Independent |language=en |archive-date=21 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240821125147/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mike-lynch-yacht-net-worth-daughter-b2599355.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Lynch's entry in ''[[Who's Who (UK)|Who's Who]]'' lists his recreations as jazz saxophone and preserving [[rare breeds]].<ref>{{cite
===Death===
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