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]
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