Henry Ormsby

Who was Henry Ormsby?

Henry Ormsby PC, QC was an Irish lawyer and judge.

Ormsby was born at Powerscourt, County Wicklow, the fourth son of the Reverend Henry Ormsby and his wife Margaret Sandys. He was educated at the University of Dublin, called to the Bar in 1835 and appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1858. He was Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1868 and again in 1874 and Attorney-General for Ireland 1875. Later that year he was appointed judge of the Landed Estates Court; he became a judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland in 1875, retiring in 1885.

Ormsby married Julia Hamilton in 1840; their son George Albert Ormsby was Bishop of British Honduras.