About Henry Singer Keating
Lived 1804 – 1888 (aged 84). Henry Singer Keating was a British politician, judge and barrister.
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 to 1858 and in 1859. He was knighted in 1857.
He sat as a Judge of Common Pleas from 1859 to 1875. 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.
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Who was Henry Singer Keating?
British politician (1804-1888)
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Henry Singer Keating was born on 13 January 1804.
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Henry Singer Keating died on 1 October 1888.
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Henry Singer Keating was a politician, judge and barrister.
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Henry Singer Keating was British.
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