Edward Singleton

{{Short description|British Lawyer}}

{{for|the American physician and pediatric radiologist|Edward B. 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. {{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-edward-singleton-1550531.html|title=Obituary: Sir Edward Singleton|publisher= The Telegraph|accessdate= 7 July 2018}}

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. {{London Gazette |date=6 June 1975 |supp=y |issue=46593 |page=7370 }}

He died in 1992. He had married in 1943 Margaret Hutton, with whom he had three sons and a daughter.