Type: | Dean |
Honorific Prefix: | The Very Reverend |
Samuel Stanfield Singer | |
Dean of Glasgow and Galloway | |
Church: | Anglican |
Diocese: | Glasgow and Galloway |
Term: | 1974–1987 |
Predecessor: | Frederick Goldie |
Successor: | Douglas William John Reid |
Other Post: | Vicar, Middleton, Derbyshire Rector, All Saints, Glasgow |
Birth Name: | Samuel Stanfield Singer |
Birth Date: | 2 May 1920 |
Nationality: | Scottish |
Alma Mater: | Trinity College, Dublin |
Samuel Stanfield Singer (2 May 1920 – 13 November 1989) was a Scottish episcopal clergyman who was Dean of Glasgow and Galloway from 1974 to 1987.
Singer was born on 2 May 1920.[1] He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and ordained a deacon in 1943, and as a priest in 1944. Following a curacy at Christ Church, Derriaghy, Northern Ireland,[2] he was a Minor Canon at Down Cathedral from 1945 until 1947.
After another curacy in Wirksworth, Singer was Vicar of Middleton, Derbyshire, then Rector of All Saints, Glasgow.[3] He was Dean of Glasgow and Galloway from 1974 to 1987.[4] Singer died on 13 November 1989.[5]