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.
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.[3]
| 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. |
| Crest: | On a mural coronet Or a boar statant Gules in the mouth a laurel leaf Vert.[4] |
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