Edward Singleton
Sir Edward Henry Sibbald Singleton (7 April 1921 – 6 September 1992) was a British lawyer who was president of the Law Society of England and Wales.[1]
He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Brasenose College, Oxford and was articled with the firm of Messrs Sharpe, Pritchard & Co. During the Second World War he served as a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm in the Western Desert, the Mediterranean and the Pacific.
After the war he qualified as a solicitor in 1949 and served five years with Richards Butler & Co. before moving on in 1954 as a partner in the firm of Macfarlanes. He was a consultant from 1977 to 1986.
He was a member of the council of the Law Society from 1961 to 1980, serving as their vice-president in 1973 and their president in 1974, for which he was knighted in the 1975 Birthday Honours.[2]
He died in 1992. He had married in 1943 Margaret Hutton, with whom he had three sons and a daughter.
References
[edit]- ^ "Obituary: Sir Edward Singleton". The Telegraph. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
- ^ "No. 46593". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 June 1975. p. 7370.