Henry Singer Keating

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

Sir Henry Singer Keating.

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.