Samuel Singer

Samuel Stanfield Singer (1920 – 13 November 1989) was a Scottish episcopal clergyman who was Dean of Glasgow and Galloway from 1974 to 1987.

For the English author and scholar, see Samuel Weller Singer.

The Very Reverend

Samuel Stanfield Singer
Born1920 (1920)
Died13 November 1989(1989-11-13) (aged 68–69)
NationalityBritish
Alma materTrinity College, Dublin
OccupationClergyman
St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow

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 he 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]

References
  1. Bertie (Ibid) p412
  2. Church clergy history
  3. Crockfords (London, Church House, 1987/88) p 509 ISBN 0-7151-8066-5
  4. "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M p596: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
  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
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