Synge, (Edmund) John Millington (16 April –), writer, was born 16 April in Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin, into an Anglo-Irish family of ecclesiastics and landlords, descended from Bishop Edward Synge (qv) (d. ), whose fortunes had declined through the nineteenth century. His father, John Hatch Synge, was a landlord and full-time barrister, who specialised in conveyancing. His.