Robert Singleton (priest)

Robert Singleton (died 1544), also known as John, was an English Roman Catholic priest, executed on a treason charge. He is considered a Catholic martyr by Antonio Possevino, in his Apparatus Sacer .

He belonged to a Lancashire family and was educated at the University of Oxford, but does not appear to have graduated. He became a priest, and for some utterances which were accounted treasonable was brought before a court of bishops in 1543. He was executed at Tyburn on 7 March 1544, along with Germain Gardiner and John Larke.

He is said to have written:

• Treatise of the Seven Churches
• Of the Holy Ghost
• Comment on Certain Prophecies
• Theory of the Earth, dedicated to Henry VII. Thomas Tanner calls this Of the Seven Ages of the World.

None seem to have been printed.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Singleton, Robert (d.1544)". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

• 1544 deaths
• 16th-century English Roman Catholic priests
• English martyrs

• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Use dmy dates from October 2019
• Articles incorporating Cite DNB template
• Articles incorporating DNB text with Wikisource reference
• Year of birth missing