Rt. Rev. George Synge

http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/history/batch2/brady_vol3_cropped.pdf p 100

Bishop Synge died soon after at Bridgnorth, where he was buried, in the church of St. Mary Magdalene, on 31 August, 1652. In the epitaph on his tomb he is thus described :-

"Vir gravis admodum et doctus, prmsertim in polemica Theologia,
et juris utriusque scientia. Procerioris prteterea status?,
forme decorm, et generosm conversationis."

Synge was a great friend of Archbishop Ussher; he was hospitable to his friends, and charitable to the poor. He was twice married. His first wife, whom he married in 1622, was Anne, daughter of Francis Edgeworth, Esq., of Dublin, Clerk of the Hanaper. By her, who, with five of her younger children, and her mother, was drowned in 1641, he had issue an eldest son, Francis, Archdeacon of Ross, q. v.; and a daughter, Margaret, wife of Primate Michael Boyle, who was, in 1640, Dean of Cloyne, q. Y. Bishop Synge married secondly (circa 1645) Elizabeth Stephens, and by her had inter alias two sons-Richard, Archdeacon of Cork, q. v. ; and George, P. Kilbrogan, Cork, q v"