[1] Educated privately in France, he entered Trinity College, Dublin (as Henry Wransfordsly) in March 1841 but did not obtain a degree.
[1] Wrenfordsley qualified as a solicitor, became a journeyman lawyer in Dublin and at the English Bar, called to the bar on 30 April 1863, he was junior counsel for the Privy Council office in House of Commons inquiries into the foreign cattle market.
Wrenfordsley was then appointed Attorney General of Jamaica, then on the death of Sir Archibald Burt in 1879, was made chief justice of Western Australia.
[1] From March 1885 to February 1887 Wrenfordsley was an acting judge of the supreme court of Tasmania,[1] and took a similar position at Melbourne[1] in 1888.
Later in 1891[2] Wrenfordsley became Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands, and held the position until he retired in 1901 when he went to live in the south of France.