Honorific Prefix: | Sir |
Morgan Singer | |
Birth Date: | 13 December 1864 |
Death Place: | Winchester, Hampshire |
Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
Rank: | Admiral |
Branch: | Royal Navy |
Commands: | North America and West Indies Station |
Battles: | World War I |
Awards: | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order |
Sir Morgan Singer, (13 December 1864 - 27 April 1938) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station.
Singer joined the Royal Navy in 1877, and was promoted to lieutenant on 13 December 1885. During 1900 he was in command of, followed by a command of .[1] In January 1903 he was appointed in command of the protected cruiser HMS Prometheus,[2] serving with her in the Channel Fleet for a year. He was promoted to captain on 31 December 1903. By 1908 he was captain of the cruiser .[3]
He served in World War I and was appointed Director of Naval Ordnance in August 1914 taking responsibility for the Admiralty's entire supply of guns, torpedoes and mines.[4] He continued in that post until March 1917.[5] He was then second-in-command, North America and West Indies Station (to Vice-Admiral Sir William Lowther Grant, the Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station), and Admiral Superintendent, Bermuda, with HMS Caesar) as his flagship.[6] [7]
Promoted to vice-admiral in February 1919,[8] he became Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station the same month.[9] He was appointed KCB later that year,[10] and went on to be Commander-in-Chief of Coastguards and Reserves in 1921.[11] He became a full Admiral in 1924.[8]
He died in Winchester in Hampshire in 1938.[4]
In 1899 he married Emily Mary Desborough.[12]