Solicitor General

Heneage Finch 16601660
Simon Harcourt 30 May 1702April 1707
Robert Raymond 17101714
Philip Yorke 17201724
Charles Talbot 17261733
William Murray 17421754
Fletcher Norton 17611763
John Dunning January 1768January 1770
Alexander Wedderburn January 1771June 1778
Sir Richard Pepper Arden 17821783
Sir John Scott 17881793
John Freeman-Mitford February 1793July 1799
Sir William Grant 1799
Spencer Perceval 18011802
Sir Vicary Gibbs February 1805January 1806
Samuel Romilly February 1806April 1807
William Garrow June 1812May 1813
Sir John Singleton Copley July 1819January 1824
Sir Edward Burtenshaw Sugden 18291830
Sir William Horne 26 November 18301832
Sir John Campbell 18321834
Rt Hon Sir Charles Christopher Pepys 18341834
Robert Monsey Rolfe 18341834
Sir William Webb Follett 18341835
Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe 18351839
Sir Thomas Wilde 18391841
Sir William Webb Follett 18411844
Frederic Thesiger April 18441845
Sir Fitzroy Kelly 18451846
Sir John Jervis 17 July 184611 July 1850
Sir John Romilly 18481850
Alexander James Edmund Cockburn 18501851
Sir William Page Wood 18511852
Richard Bethell 18521856
Sir Fitzroy Kelly February 1852December 1852
Rt Hon James Archibald Stuart-Wortley November 1856May 1857
Sir Henry Singer Keating 18571858
Hugh McCalmont Cairns 18581859
Sir Henry Singer Keating 18591859
Sir William Atherton 18591861
Roundell Palmer 18611863
Robert Porrett Collier 18631866
Sir William Bovill 18661866
Sir John Burgess Karslake 186618 July 1867
Sir Charles Jasper Selwyn 18671868
Sir William Baliol Brett 18681868
Sir Richard Baggallay 18681868
Sir John Duke Coleridge 18681871
Sir George Jessel 18711873
Rt Hon Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon-Harcourt 187321 February 1874
Sir Henry James September 1873November 1873
Sir Richard Baggallay 18741874
John Holker 18741875
Sir Hardinge Stanley Giffard 18751880
Rt Hon Sir Farrer Herschell 18802 July 1885
John Eldon Gorst 2 July 18851886
Edward George Clarke 18861892
Horace Davey 16 February 18861886
John Rigby 18923 May 1894
Frank Lockwood 18941895
Sir Robert Threshie Reid 3 May 189424 October 1894
Sir Robert Bannatyne Finlay 30 August 18951900
Sir Edward Henry Carson 7 May 19004 December 1905
Sir William Snowdon Robson 12 December 190528 January 1908
Samuel Thomas Evans 28 January 19086 March 1910
Rufus Daniel Isaacs 6 March 19107 October 1910
John Allsebrook Simon 7 October 191019 October 1913
Sir Stanley Owen Buckmaster 19 October 19132 June 1915
Rt Hon Frederick Edwin Smith 2 June 19158 November 1915
Rt Hon Sir George Cave 8 November 191510 December 1916
Gordon Hewart 10 December 191619 January 1919
Ernest Murray Pollock 10 January 19196 March 1922
Leslie Frederic Scott 6 March 192219 October 1922
Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip 31 October 192222 January 1924
Henry Herman Slesser 23 January 19243 November 1924
Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip 11 November 192428 March 1928
Frank Boyd Merriman 28 March 19285 June 1929
Sir James Benjamin Melville 7 June 192922 October 1930
Richard Stafford Cripps 22 October 193024 August 1931
Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip 3 September 193126 January 1932
Sir Frank Boyd Merriman 26 January 193229 September 1933
Rt Hon Sir Donald Bradley Somervell 29 September 193319 March 1936
Sir Terence James O'Connor 19 March 19369 May 1940
Rt Hon Sir William Allen Jowitt 15 March 19404 March 1942
Rt Hon Sir David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe 4 March 194225 May 1945
Sir Walter Turner Monckton 25 May 194526 July 1945
Frank Soskice 4 August 194524 April 1951
Arwen Lynn Ungoed-Thomas 24 April 195126 October 1951
Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller 3 November 195118 October 1954
Sir Harry Braustyn Hylton Hylton-Foster 18 October 195420 October 1959
Jocelyn Edward Salis Simon 22 October 19598 February 1962
Sir John Gardiner Sumner Hobson 8 February 196219 July 1962
Sir Peter Anthony Grayson Rawlinson 19 July 196216 October 1964
Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot 18 October 196424 August 1967
Sir Arthur James Irvine 24 August 196719 June 1970
Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe 23 June 19705 November 1972
Sir Robert Michael Oldfield Havers 5 November 19724 March 1974
Peter Kingsley Archer 7 March 19744 May 1979
Sir Walter Ian Percival 5 May 197913 June 1983
Sir Patrick Barnabas Burke Mayhew 13 June 198313 June 1987
Nicholas Walter Lyell 13 June 198711 April 1992
Derek Harold Spencer 15 April 19922 May 1997
Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton 6 May 199728 July 1998
Prof Ross Frederick Cranston 28 July 199811 June 2001
Rt Hon Harriet Ruth Harman 11 June 20019 May 2005
Michael O'Brien 9 May 200529 June 2007
Vera Baird 2 July 200711 May 2010
Edward Henry Garnier 13 May 20104 September 2012
Oliver Heald 4 September 201215 July 2014
Robert James Buckland 15 July 20149 May 2019
Lucy Claire Frazer 9 May 201925 July 2019
Michael Tyrone Ellis 26 July 20192 March 2021
Rt Hon Lucy Claire Frazer 2 March 202110 September 2021
Rt Hon Michael Tyrone Ellis 10 September 202116 September 2021
Alexander John Gervase Chalk 16 September 20215 July 2022
Anthony Edward Timpson 8 July 2022
Michael James Tomlinson-Mynors 7 September 20227 December 2023
Robert Alexander Courts 7 December 2023