Henry Singer Keating

Sir 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 and Wales from 1857-8 and in 1859.^[3]

He sat as a Judge of Common Pleas from 1859-75. He became a member of the Privy Council in 1875, entitling him to sit on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the court of last resort for the Empire.^[3]

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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 and Wales 1857 – 1858	Succeeded by Sir Hugh Cairns
Preceded by Sir Hugh Cairns	Solicitor General for England and Wales 1859	Succeeded by Sir William Atherton

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