Morgan Singer
{{Short description|British Royal Navy officer (1864–1938)}}
{{For|the singer known as Morgan|Morgan (singer)}}
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|honorific_prefix = Sir
|name = Morgan Singer
|birth_date =13 December 1864
|death_date = {{death-date and age|27 April 1938|13 December 1864}}
|birth_place =
|death_place = Winchester, Hampshire
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|allegiance = {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom
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|rank = Admiral
|branch = 23px Royal Navy
|commands = North America and West Indies Station
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|battles = World War I
|awards = Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
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Sir Morgan Singer, {{postnominals|country=GBR|sep=,|KCB|KCVO}} (13 December 1864 – 27 April 1938) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station.
Naval career
Singer joined the Royal Navy in 1877, and was promoted to lieutenant on 13 December 1885. During 1900 he was in command of {{HMS|Flying Fish|1897|6}}, followed by a command of {{HMS|Spiteful|1899|6}}.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence|date=1 January 1901 |page=12 |issue=36340}} In January 1903 he was appointed in command of the protected cruiser HMS Prometheus,{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=5 January 1903 |page=5 |issue=36969}} serving with her in the Channel Fleet for a year. He was promoted to captain on 31 December 1903.{{London Gazette|issue=27632|date=1 January 1904|page=25}} By 1908 he was captain of the cruiser {{HMS|Roxburgh|1904|6}}.[http://www.worldnavalships.com/navy_list_1908_ship_q_to_t.htm Navy List 1908 Ship Q to T – Crew Lists] World Naval Ships
He served in World War I and was appointed Director of Naval Ordnance in August 1914 taking responsibility for the Admiralty's entire supply of guns, torpedoes and mines.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/04/29/archives/sir-morgan-singer-admiral-wan-director-of-naval-ordnance-for.html |title=Obituary: Sir Morgan Singer |work=The New York Times |date=29 April 1938}} He continued in that post until March 1917.[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10409/10409-h/10409-h.htm The Crisis of the Naval War by Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O. Chapter 10] He was then second-in-command, North America and West Indies Station (to Vice-Admiral Sir William Lowther Grant, the Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station), and Admiral Superintendent, Bermuda, with HMS Caesar) as his flagship.{{cite book |author= |date=1918-07-01 |title=THE NAVY LIST, FOR JULY, 1918, Corrected to The 18th JUNE, 1918. |location=London |publisher=His Majesty's Stationery Office |page=6 |quote=Flag Officers in commission}}{{cite book |last = Preston | first = Antony | chapter = Great Britain and Empire Forces | page = 7 | editor1-last = Gardiner | editor1-first = Robert | editor2-last = Gray | editor2-first = Randal | year = 1985 | title = Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921 | publisher = Naval Institute Press | location = Annapolis | isbn = 978-0-87021-907-8 | url=https://archive.org/details/conwaysallworlds0000unse_z3o0 }}
Promoted to vice-admiral in February 1919,[http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/individual.php?RecNo=411 Admiral Sir Morgan Singer, KCB, KCVO] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233822/http://www.admirals.org.uk/admirals/individual.php?RecNo=411 |date=3 March 2016 }} Royal Navy Flag Officers 1904 – 1975 he became Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station the same month.Naval Notes, The RUSI Journal, Volume 64, Issue 455 August 1919, pages 517 – 530 He was appointed KCB later that year,[http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/issues/13543/pages/4128/page.pdf Honours List] Edinburgh Gazette, 26 December 1919 and went on to be Commander-in-Chief of Coastguards and Reserves in 1921.Naval Notes, The RUSI Journal, Volume 66, Issue 463 August 1921, pages 530 – 541 He became a full Admiral in 1924.
He died in Winchester in Hampshire in 1938.
Family
In 1899 he married Emily Mary Desborough.[http://www.william1.co.uk/t44.htm Emily Mary Desborough] Tudor 44
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Category:Royal Navy admirals of World War I