List of attorneys-general of Durham explained

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
• 1866 - 1868: Stephen Temple
• 1868 - 1872: John Richard Quain^[2]
• 1872 - 1886: John Bridge Aspinall
• 1886 - 1887: Gainsford Bruce
• 1887 - 1901: John Forbes
• 1901 - 1915: Edward Tindal Atkinson
• 1915 - 1939: Herbert Francis Manisty
• 1939 - 1940 James Willoughby Jardine
• 1941 - ?: Geoffrey Hugh Benbow Streatfeild
• 1950 - 1957: George Raymond Hinchcliffe
• 1957 - 1961: Geoffrey de Paiva Veale
• 1961 - 1965: George Stanley Waller
• 1965 - 1971: Rudolph Lyons

Notes and References

1. Durham County Record Office,CCB B/189/17/1. (220506). 15 November 1634
2. Quain, John Richard. Hamilton. John Andrew. John Andrew Hamilton. 47.