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
  1. "Obituary: Sir Edward Singleton". The Telegraph. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
  2. "No. 46593". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 June 1975. p. 7370.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.