List of attorneys-general of Durham

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