 Henry MacCormac qualified in Dublin, Paris and earned a Medical Doctorate at the University of Edinburgh in 1916, and also became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh.In the early 1800s, Henry MacCormac travelled to Sierra Leone, where his brothers, Hon.John MacCormac, (1794–1865) and Hamilton Edmond MacCormac (d. 1859), lived as timber merchants.