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Spoken style
  
My Lord


Religious style
  
Bishop

Name
  
Hugh Singleton


Reference style
  
The Right Reverend

Hugh Singleton (30 July 1851 – 17 December 1934) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Bishop of Shrewsbury from 1908 to 1934.

Born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, on 30 July 1851, he was ordained to the priesthood on 25 July 1880. He was appointed the Bishop of Shrewsbury by the Holy See on 1 August 1908. His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 21 September 1908, the principal consecrator was Cardinal Francis Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, and the principal co-consecrators were Francis Mostyn, Bishop of Menevia (later Archbishop of Cardiff) and Richard Collins, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle.

He died in office on 17 December 1934, aged 83.

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