Samuel Singer

Samuel Stanfield Singer was Dean of Glasgow and Galloway from 1974 to 1987.[1]

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

He was born on 2 May 1920,[2] educated at Trinity College, Dublin;and ordained deacon in 1943, and priest in 1944. Followinga curacy at Christ Church Derriaghy[3] 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.[4]

He died on 13 November 1989.[5]

References

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

Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by Frederick Goldie	Glasgow and Galloway 1974–1987	Succeeded by Douglas William John Reid