Samuel Singer Explained

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.

Career

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]

Notes and References

  1. Bertie (Ibid) p412
  2. http://lisburn.com/books/derriaghy/derriaghy4.html Church clergy history
  3. [Crockford's clerical directory|Crockfords]
  4. "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M p596: Edinburgh T & T Clark
  5. ‘SINGER, Rev. Canon Samuel Stanfield’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 4 Sept 2015