Henry Singer Keating

{{Short description|British lawyer and politician}}

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Sir Henry Singer Keating (13 January 1804 – 1 October 1888){{cite web

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}} 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{{cite book

|last=Craig

|first=F. W. S.

|authorlink= F. W. S. Craig

|title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885

|origyear=1977

|edition= 2nd

|year=1989

|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn= 0-900178-26-4

|page=250

}} and as Solicitor-General for England from 1857 to 1858 and in 1859.{{cite Men-at-the-Bar|name=Keating, Henry Singer|page=252}} He was knighted in 1857.{{London Gazette|issue=22014|page=2164|date= 23 June 1857}}

He sat as a Judge of Common Pleas from 1859{{London Gazette|issue=22337|page=4739|date=16 December 1859}}{{London Gazette|issue=22338|page=4777|date=20 December 1859}} to 1875. He became a member of the Privy Council in 1875,{{London Gazette|issue=24178|page=452|date=5 February 1875}} entitling him to sit on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the court of last resort for the Empire.