Authors: Ben Ruhe
Date Submitted: August 31, 2005
Article Type: Journal

Peter Lynn’s undoubted success in life is owed in part to his support staff, particularly wife Elwyn. Both with Highland Scot and Protestant Northern Irish bloodlines, they met at Canterbury University in Christchurch, he a student of engineering, she a speech therapist. It was love at first sight. They wed six weeks after meeting. He was 21, she 19.

Initially Peter joined his father’s large woodworking business. He had learned the business as a boy. Elwyn taught.

Their five children are Kirri, a lawyer; Robert, a 6 foot 5 engineer who worked for Team New Zealand in recent America’s Cup yacht racing; Pete, another engineer who designed the most recent Peter Lynn traction kite; Sarah, a London lawyer; and Katrina, an economist. All are single except Pete, whose wife is taking a doctorate in sociology.

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