Attorney General
Sir Heneage Finch, bt
1670
1673
Sir John Churchill
1673
1685
Sir Simon Harcourt
April 1707
12 February 1708
Sir Simon Harcourt
September 1710
October 1710
Sir Robert Raymond
1720
January 1724
Sir Philip Yorke
1724
1733
John Willes
1734
1734
William Murray
1754
1756
Robert Henley
1756
1757
Fletcher Norton
1763
1765
Alexander Wedderburn
16 June 1778
June 1780
Sir John Scott
1793
1799
Sir John Freeman-Mitford
July 1799
February 1801
Spencer Perceval
1802
1806
William Garrow
1806
1812
Sir Vicary Gibbs
1807
May 1812
Sir William Garrow
May 1813
May 1817
William Draper Best
February 1816
1819
Sir John Singleton Copley
January 1824
September 1826
Sir James Scarlett
27 April 1827
19 February 1828
Sir James Scarlett
29 June 1829
19 November 1830
Sir William Horne
26 November 1832
1 March 1834
Sir John Campbell
1 March 1834
14 November 1834
Sir Frederick Pollock
17 December 1834
8 April 1835
Sir John Campbell
30 April 1835
3 July 1841
Sir Thomas Wilde
3 July 1841
30 August 1841
Sir Frederick Pollock
6 September 1841
15 April 1844
Sir William Webb Follett
15 April 1844
28 June 1845
Sir Frederic Thesiger
29 June 1845
3 July 1846
Rt Hon Sir Thomas Wilde
7 July 1846
17 July 1846
Sir John Romilly
11 July 1850
28 March 1851
Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn
28 March 1851
21 February 1852
Sir Frederic Thesiger
27 February 1852
17 December 1852
Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn
28 December 1852
15 November 1856
Sir Richard Bethell
1856
1858
Sir Fitzroy Kelly
21 February 1858
11 June 1859
Sir Richard Bethell
1859
1861
Sir William Atherton
4 July 1861
2 October 1863
Sir Roundell Palmer
2 October 1863
26 June 1866
Sir Hugh McCalmont Cairns
10 July 1866
29 October 1866
John Rolt
29 October 1866
18 July 1867
Sir John Burgess Karslake
18 July 1867
1 December 1868
Sir Robert Porrett Collier
12 December 1868
10 November 1871
Sir John Duke Coleridge
10 November 1871
20 November 1873
Sir Henry James
20 November 1873
17 February 1874
Sir John Burgess Karslake
27 February 1874
20 April 1874
Sir Richard Baggallay
20 April 1874
25 November 1875
Sir John Holker
25 November 1875
21 April 1880
Sir Henry James
3 May 1880
9 June 1885
Richard Everard Webster
27 June 1885
28 January 1886
Charles Arthur Russell
9 February 1886
20 July 1886
Sir Richard Everard Webster
5 August 1886
11 August 1892
Sir Charles Arthur Russell
20 August 1892
3 May 1894
Sir John Rigby
3 May 1894
19 October 1894
Sir Robert Threshie Reid
24 October 1894
21 June 1895
Sir Richard Everard Webster
8 July 1895
7 May 1900
Sir Robert Bannatyne Finlay
7 May 1900
4 December 1905
John Lawson Walton
1905
19 January 1908
Sir William Snowdon Robson
28 January 1908
1910
Sir Rufus Daniel Isaacs
7 October 1910
19 October 1913
Rt Hon Sir John Allsebrook Simon
October 1913
27 May 1915
Rt Hon Sir Edward Henry Carson
May 1915
19 October 1915
Rt Hon Frederick Edwin Smith
3 November 1915
10 January 1919
William Allen Jowitt
1919
Rt Hon Sir Gordon Hewart
10 January 1919
6 March 1922
Ernest Murray Pollock
1922
1922
Douglas McGarel Hogg
24 October 1922
22 January 1924
Patrick Gardiner Hastings
25 January 1924
3 November 1924
Rt Hon Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg
6 November 1924
4 April 1928
Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip
1928
1929
Rt Hon Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip
1932
1936
Sir Hartley William Shawcross
1945
April 1951
Rt Hon Sir Frank Soskice
April 1951
October 1951
Sir Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller
1954
July 1962
Sir John Gardiner Sumner Hobson
July 1962
1964
Sir Frederick Elwyn Jones
16 October 1964
19 June 1970
Rt Hon Sir Peter Anthony Grayson Rawlinson
June 1970
March 1974
Samuel Charles Silkin
5 March 1974
4 May 1979
Rt Hon Sir Robert Michael Oldfield Havers
May 1979
June 1987
Rt Hon Sir Patrick Barnabas Burke Mayhew
June 1987
11 April 1992
Rt Hon Sir Nicholas Walter Lyell
11 April 1992
2 May 1997
Rt Hon John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon
2 May 1997
28 July 1999
Rt Hon Gareth Wyn Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn
1999
June 2001
Peter Henry Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith
11 June 2001
27 June 2007
Rt Hon Patricia Janet Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal
28 June 2007
Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve
12 May 2010
14 July 2014
Jeremy Paul Wright
15 July 2014
9 July 2018
Rt Hon Charles Geoffrey Cox
9 July 2018
13 February 2020
Sue-Ellen Cassiana Braverman
13 February 2020
2 March 2021
Rt Hon Michael Tyrone Ellis
2 March 2021
10 September 2021
Sue-Ellen Cassiana Braverman
10 September 2021
6 September 2022
Rt Hon Michael Tyrone Ellis
6 September 2022
Victoria Mary Boswell Prentis
25 October 2022