Henry Wilmot Ormsby PC, QC (1812 – 1887) 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, daughter of the Reverend Michael Sandys. He was educated at

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, called to the Bar in 1835 and appointed a

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in 1858. He was

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in 1868 and again in 1874 and

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in 1875. Later that year he was appointed judge of the Landed Estates Court; he became a judge of the

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of the

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in 1878, retiring in 1885. Ormsby married his first cousin Julia Hamilton, daughter of Henry Hamilton of Tullylish House, County Down and Sarah Sandys (a sister of Ormsby's mother), in 1840. They had five children who reached adulthood, of whom the eldest son Montague predeceased his father. Their second son George Albert Ormsby was Bishop of British Honduras 1893–1908, and their third son Edwin was Rector of Hartlepool, County Durham for many years.Fox-Davies ed. ''Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland'' London Harrison and Sons 1912 p.293

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ormsby, Henry Irish barristers Attorneys-General for Ireland Solicitors-General for Ireland 1887 deaths 1812 births People from Enniskerry 19th-century Irish lawyers Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Judges of the High Court of Justice in Ireland Lawyers from County Wicklow