George Singe

son of Rich. Singe alias Millington, was born of gentile Parents at Bridgnorth in Shropshire, became a Commoner of Ball. Coll. in Mich. term 1609, aged 15 years, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being compleated in 1616, and afterwards became Chaplain, as it seems, to Dr. Christop. Hampton Archb. of Armagh, who not only made him his Vicar general, but Dean of Dromore. In 1638, Nov. 11. he was ((*))((*)) Jac. Waraeus in Com. de Praesul. Hibern. p. 219. consecrated at Tredagh Bishop of Cloyne, and soon after was made one of the Kings Privy Council in Ireland; but upon the breaking out of the Rebellion there in 1641, he was forced to fly to Dublin for a time for his own security. At length upon the death of Dr. Joh. Maxwell in Feb. 1646, he was, as ’tis said, nominated to succeed him in the Archbishoprick of Tuam. The next year he went into England, and setling at his native place, died in few years after, as I shall anon tell you. He was a learned man, especially in Polemical Divinity, the Civil and Canon Law, and hath written,

A Rejoynder to the Reply of Will. Malone Jesuit against Dr. Usher Primate of Ireland. Dubl. 1632. qu. and other things which I have not yet seen. He concluded his last day at Bridgnorth before mention’d, in Winter time, (before the month of Jan.) in sixteen hundred fifty and three,1653. and was buried in the Church of S. Mary Magdalen there. He had a younger Brother named Edward, born at Bridgnorth also, and afterwards was Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross in the said Kingdom of Ireland; who, if I mistake not, had received some of his Education in this University.