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Sympson 9 June 1843 he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple. He went the Oxford circuit, and attended the Gloucester quarter sessions. During this period of his life he was editor of the ‘Law Magazine’ until its union with the ‘Law Review’ in 1856. In 1846 he was appointed a commissioner to collect information as to the state of education in Wales. Lord Lansdowne was so much impressed with his reports that on 11 Feb. 1848 he made him one of her majesty’s permanent inspectors of schools, an office he retained through life. In the establishment of reformatories for juvenile criminals he took great interest. He died at Malvern House, Great Malvern, on 7 April 1860, having married in 1845 Angelina, daughter of Edward Kendall, by whom he had Jelinger Edward, born in 1847, and other children.

His chief works are: 1. ‘A Few Thoughts on Volition and Agency,’ 1833. 2. ‘Arts and Artizans at Home and Abroad, with Sketches of the Progress of Foreign Manufactures,’ 1839. 3. ‘Outlines of Popular Economy,’ 1840. 4. ‘The Attorney and Solicitors Act,’ 6 & 7 Vict. cap. 73, with an analysis, notes, and index, 1843. 5. ‘Parish Settlements and the Practice of Appeal,’ 1844; 2nd edit. 1846. 6. ‘Railway Liabilities as they affect Subscribers, Committees, Allottees, and Scripholders, inter se, and Third Parties,’ 1846. 7. ‘A Plea for Schools, which sets forth the Dearth of Education and the Growth of Crime,’ 1847. 8. ‘Tactics for the Times, as regards the Condition and Treatment of the Dangerous Classes,’ 1849. 9. ‘School Economy,’ a practical treatise on the best mode of establishing and teaching schools, 1852. 10. ‘A Scheme of Direct Taxation,’ 1853. 11. ‘The Industrial Capacities of South Wales,’ 1855. 12.‘Lunar Motion, the whole Argument stated and illustrated by Diagrams,’ 1856. 13. ‘Sir Robert Peel as a Type of Statesmanship,’ 1856. 14. ‘Milford, Past, Present, and Future,’ 1857. 15. ‘William Burke, the author of “Junius,”’ 1859. 16. ‘Rough Types of English Life,’ 1860. With R. G. Welford and others he published ‘Reports of Cases in the Law of Real Property and Conveyancing argued and determined in all the Courts of Law and Equity,’ 1846.

[Law Times, 14 April 1860, pp. 61–2, 28 April p. 78 ; Law Magazine and Law Review, May 1860, pp. 193–4; Times, 12 April 1860, p. 10.]  SYMPSON, CHRISTOPHER (1605?–1669), musician. [See .]

SYMPSON, WILLIAM (1627?–1671), quaker. [See .]

SYMSON or SYMPSON, PATRICK (1556–1618), church historian. [See .]

SYNDERCOMB, MILES (d. 1657), conspirator. [See .]

SYNGE, CHARLES (1789–1854), lieutenant-colonel, born on 17 April 1789, was second son of George Synge of Rathmore, King’s County, by Mary, daughter of Charles McDonell of Newhall, co. Clare. He was commissioned as cornet in the 10th hussars on 11 May 1809, became lieutenant on 8 Feb. 1810, and captain on 12 Aug. 1813. He served on the staff of Generals Ferguson, (afterwards Sir Ronald) and Graham (afterwards Lord Lynedoch) at Cadiz in 1810. He then became aide-de-camp to General (afterwards Sir Denis) Pack [q. v.], and remained with him to the end of the war, being present at Busaco, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Pyrenees, Nive, Nivelle, Orthes, and Toulouse. He distinguished himself especially at Salamanca, where he was severely wounded in the attack of the Arapiles. He exchanged to the 20th light dragoons on 12 Nov. 1814, was made brevet major on 21 June 1817, and was placed on half-pay in 1818. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel on 9 Aug. 1821. In the latter part of his life he lived at Mount Callan, co. Clare, and was J.P. for that county. He died in Dublin 21 Oct. 1854. He was married and left issue.

[Gent. Mag. 1855, i. 86; Burke’s Landed Gentry.]

 SYNGE, EDWARD (1659–1741), archbishop of Tuam, second and younger son of Edward Synge, bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, was born on 6 April 1659 at Inishannon in co. Cork, of which parish his father was at the time vicar.

The family belonged to Bridgnorth in Shropshire, where the name appears originally to have been Millington. According to tradition, they acquired the name of Sing or Synge from the sweetness of voice of one of the family.

(1594–1653), uncle of the younger Edward, born at Bridgnorth in 1594. was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, whence he matriculated on 16 Feb. 1610, graduated B.A. on 21 Oct. 1613, and M.A. on 12 June 1616. Subsequently he went to Ireland, where he found a warm patron in Christopher Hampton [q. v.], archbishop of Armagh, who constituted him vicar-general of his diocese and dean of Dromore; in which capacity his ‘so eloquent, so godly, so very leaud, railing, cursing censure’ of James Croxton’s attempts at auricular 