Lynden is married to Sarah and lives in Mickleton with their two young sons and two dogs.
He attended Chipping Campden School and has lived locally of his life.
Lynden has five sons altogether, three of whom help run the family printing business in Willersey, and four grandchildren. He also runs a nursery specialising in growing young plug plants.
In total he employs 50 people locally.
Lynden was elected as a Cotswold district councillor in 2003 and became Leader of the Council in 2006.
He initiated joint working with neighbouring West Oxfordshire council and has direct responsibility for Budgets, Financial Strategy and Efficiency programmes. This year Cotswold delivered the biggest cut in council tax in the country.
In 2009 he was elected as Gloucestershire county councillor for the North Cotswolds. He was re-elected in 2013 as County Councillor for Campden-Vale.
Lynden believes in protecting frontline services, improving NHS services, recycling as much waste as possible, better local roads and defending our Cotswold landscape from attacks on the countryside.