List of Attorneys-General of Durham

Historical offices of Durham
Lieutenancies
Lord Lieutenant Vice-Lieutenant Deputy Lieutenant
Judicial
High Sheriff Attorney-General Solicitor-General Chancellor Custos Rotulorum
Military
Vice-Admiral

This is an incomplete list of those who have served as Attorney-General of County Durham:

• 1634-1639 Sir Thomas Tempest^[1]
• bef. 1822–1834?: Sir James Scarlett
• 1834?: Sir Frederick Pollock
• 1835–1846? David Francis Atcherley
• 1846–1861: Robert Ingham
• 1861–1866: William Mathewson Hindmarch^[2]
• 1866–1868: Stephen Temple^[3]
• 1868–1872: John Richard Quain^[4][5]
• 1872–1886: John Bridge Aspinall^[6]
• 1886–1887: Gainsford Bruce^[7]
• 1887–1901: John Forbes^[8]
• 1901–1915: Edward Tindal Atkinson^[9]
• 1915–1939: Herbert Francis Manisty
• 1939–1940 James Willoughby Jardine^[10]
• 1941–?: Geoffrey Hugh Benbow Streatfeild^[11]
• 1950–1957: George Raymond Hinchcliffe^[12]
• 1957–1961: Geoffrey de Paiva Veale^[13]
• 1961–1965: George Stanley Waller^[14]
• 1965–1971: Rudolph Lyons^[15]

References

1. Durham County Record Office,CCB B/189/17/1. (220506). 15 November 1634
2. The London Gazette: no. 22575. p. 5327. 10 December 1861.
3. The London Gazette: no. 23172. p. 5435. 12 October 1866.
4. The London Gazette: no. 23419. p. 4831. 4 September 1868.
5.  Hamilton, John Andrew (1896). "Quain, John Richard". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
6. The London Gazette: no. 23822. p. 273. 26 January 1872.
7. The London Gazette: no. 25577. p. 1780. 13 April 1886.
8. The London Gazette: no. 25764. p. 6797. 6 December 1887.
9. The London Gazette: no. 27266. p. 309. 15 January 1901.
10. The London Gazette: no. 34637. p. 4151. 20 June 1939.
11. The London Gazette: no. 35083. p. 1072. 21 February 1941.
12. The London Gazette: no. 38902. p. 2185. 2 May 1950.
13. The London Gazette: no. 40996. p. 873. 8 February 1957.
14. The London Gazette: no. 42272. p. 933. 7 February 1961.
15. The London Gazette: no. 43604. p. 2797. 19 March 1965.