Henry Singer Keating
British politician
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| Intro | British politician | ||||||
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | ||||||
| was | Politician Judge | ||||||
| Work field | Law Politics | ||||||
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| Birth | 13 January 1804 | ||||||
| Death | 1 October 1888 (aged 84 years) | ||||||
| Star sign | Capricorn | ||||||
| Politics: | Liberal Party | ||||||
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Sir Henry Singer Keating (13 January 1804 – 1 October 1888) 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 and as Solicitor General for England and Wales from 1857-8 and in 1859.
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.