Attorney General

Sir Heneage Finch, bt 16701673
Sir John Churchill 16731685
Sir Simon Harcourt April 170712 February 1708
Sir Simon Harcourt September 1710October 1710
Sir Robert Raymond 1720January 1724
Sir Philip Yorke 17241733
John Willes 17341734
William Murray 17541756
Robert Henley 17561757
Fletcher Norton 17631765
Alexander Wedderburn 16 June 1778June 1780
Sir John Scott 17931799
Sir John Freeman-Mitford July 1799February 1801
Spencer Perceval 18021806
William Garrow 18061812
Sir Vicary Gibbs 1807May 1812
Sir William Garrow May 1813May 1817
William Draper Best February 18161819
Sir John Singleton Copley January 1824September 1826
Sir James Scarlett 27 April 182719 February 1828
Sir James Scarlett 29 June 182919 November 1830
Sir William Horne 26 November 18321 March 1834
Sir John Campbell 1 March 183414 November 1834
Sir Frederick Pollock 17 December 18348 April 1835
Sir John Campbell 30 April 18353 July 1841
Sir Thomas Wilde 3 July 184130 August 1841
Sir Frederick Pollock 6 September 184115 April 1844
Sir William Webb Follett 15 April 184428 June 1845
Sir Frederic Thesiger 29 June 18453 July 1846
Rt Hon Sir Thomas Wilde 7 July 184617 July 1846
Sir John Romilly 11 July 185028 March 1851
Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn 28 March 185121 February 1852
Sir Frederic Thesiger 27 February 185217 December 1852
Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn 28 December 185215 November 1856
Sir Richard Bethell 18561858
Sir Fitzroy Kelly 21 February 185811 June 1859
Sir Richard Bethell 18591861
Sir William Atherton 4 July 18612 October 1863
Sir Roundell Palmer 2 October 186326 June 1866
Sir Hugh McCalmont Cairns 10 July 186629 October 1866
John Rolt 29 October 186618 July 1867
Sir John Burgess Karslake 18 July 18671 December 1868
Sir Robert Porrett Collier 12 December 186810 November 1871
Sir John Duke Coleridge 10 November 187120 November 1873
Sir Henry James 20 November 187317 February 1874
Sir John Burgess Karslake 27 February 187420 April 1874
Sir Richard Baggallay 20 April 187425 November 1875
Sir John Holker 25 November 187521 April 1880
Sir Henry James 3 May 18809 June 1885
Richard Everard Webster 27 June 188528 January 1886
Charles Arthur Russell 9 February 188620 July 1886
Sir Richard Everard Webster 5 August 188611 August 1892
Sir Charles Arthur Russell 20 August 18923 May 1894
Sir John Rigby 3 May 189419 October 1894
Sir Robert Threshie Reid 24 October 189421 June 1895
Sir Richard Everard Webster 8 July 18957 May 1900
Sir Robert Bannatyne Finlay 7 May 19004 December 1905
John Lawson Walton 190519 January 1908
Sir William Snowdon Robson 28 January 19081910
Sir Rufus Daniel Isaacs 7 October 191019 October 1913
Rt Hon Sir John Allsebrook Simon October 191327 May 1915
Rt Hon Sir Edward Henry Carson May 191519 October 1915
Rt Hon Frederick Edwin Smith 3 November 191510 January 1919
William Allen Jowitt 1919
Rt Hon Sir Gordon Hewart 10 January 19196 March 1922
Ernest Murray Pollock 19221922
Douglas McGarel Hogg 24 October 192222 January 1924
Patrick Gardiner Hastings 25 January 19243 November 1924
Rt Hon Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg 6 November 19244 April 1928
Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip 19281929
Rt Hon Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip 19321936
Sir Hartley William Shawcross 1945April 1951
Rt Hon Sir Frank Soskice April 1951October 1951
Sir Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller 1954July 1962
Sir John Gardiner Sumner Hobson July 19621964
Sir Frederick Elwyn Jones 16 October 196419 June 1970
Rt Hon Sir Peter Anthony Grayson Rawlinson June 1970March 1974
Samuel Charles Silkin 5 March 19744 May 1979
Rt Hon Sir Robert Michael Oldfield Havers May 1979June 1987
Rt Hon Sir Patrick Barnabas Burke Mayhew June 198711 April 1992
Rt Hon Sir Nicholas Walter Lyell 11 April 19922 May 1997
Rt Hon John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon 2 May 199728 July 1999
Rt Hon Gareth Wyn Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn 1999June 2001
Peter Henry Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith 11 June 200127 June 2007
Rt Hon Patricia Janet Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal 28 June 2007
Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve 12 May 201014 July 2014
Jeremy Paul Wright 15 July 20149 July 2018
Rt Hon Charles Geoffrey Cox 9 July 201813 February 2020
Sue-Ellen Cassiana Braverman 13 February 20202 March 2021
Rt Hon Michael Tyrone Ellis 2 March 202110 September 2021
Sue-Ellen Cassiana Braverman 10 September 20216 September 2022
Rt Hon Michael Tyrone Ellis 6 September 2022
Victoria Mary Boswell Prentis 25 October 2022