Henry Singer Keating

Sir Henry Singer Keating (13 January 1804 – 1 October 1888)^[1] was a British lawyer and politician.

The son of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Sheehy Keating, he attended Trinity College Dublin and became a barrister at the Inner Temple in 1832, and a Queen's Counsel in 1849. He was Member of Parliament for Reading from 1852 until 1860^[2] and as Solicitor-General for England from 1857 to 1858 and in 1859.^[3] He was knighted in 1857.^[4]

He sat as a Judge of Common Pleas from 1859^[5]^[6] to 1875. He became a member of the Privy Council in 1875,^[7] entitling him to sit on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the court of last resort for the Empire.^[3]

Arms

Coat of arms of Henry Singer Keating
Crest On a mural coronet Or a boar statant Gules in the mouth a laurel leaf Vert.^[8] Escutcheon Arms a saltire Gules between four laurel leaves Vert on a chief embattled Azure two French flags in saltire surmounted by a sword erect all Proper over the sword "Bourbon" in gold letters.

^ "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "R" (part 1)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 9 June 2017. Retrieved 22 April 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 250. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
^ ^a ^b Foster, Joseph (1885). "Keating, Henry Singer" . Men-at-the-Bar (second ed.). London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney. p. 252.
^ "No. 22014". The London Gazette. 23 June 1857. p. 2164.
^ "No. 22337". The London Gazette. 16 December 1859. p. 4739.
^ "No. 22338". The London Gazette. 20 December 1859. p. 4777.
^ "No. 24178". The London Gazette. 5 February 1875. p. 452.
^ Debrett's Judicial Bench. 1869.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Frederick Stanford Francis Piggott	Member of Parliament for Reading 1852 – 1860 With: Francis Piggott	Succeeded by Francis Goldsmid Francis Piggott
Legal offices
Preceded by James Stuart-Wortley	Solicitor-General for England 1857 – 1858	Succeeded by Sir Hugh Cairns
Preceded by Sir Hugh Cairns	Solicitor-General for England 1859	Succeeded by Sir William Atherton