Landscape watercolourist, industrial mural painter and designer. Educated in Leyburn, Yorkshire, he studied at Manchester School of Art under John Willock. For a time McGlynn produced murals for mill interiors in the Manchester area, and after World War II he became a stalwart of the Manchester Academy. Was a member of the Manchester Group which showed at the Mid-Day Studios. Participated in Arts Council exhibition Some Lancashire Artists. Had a number of one-man shows. McGlynn painted widely, in the north of England, Wales and Scotland, critics describing his watercolours as having a “quiet sparkle” and a “lively and expressive freedom of touch”. His Two Figures, completed in 1966 and in Manchester City Art Gallery, shows a later moving towards abstraction.