List of Attorneys-General of Durham
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This is an incomplete list of those who have served as Attorney-General of County Durham
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County Durham
County Durham is a ceremonial county and unitary district in north east England. The county town is Durham. The largest settlement in the ceremonial county is the town of Darlington...
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- 1634-1639 Sir Thomas Tempest
- bef. 1822–1834?: Sir James ScarlettJames Scarlett, 1st Baron AbingerJames Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger was an English lawyer, politician and judge.-Background and education:...
- 1834?: Sir Frederick PollockSir Frederick Pollock, 1st BaronetSir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet PC , was a British lawyer and Tory politician.-Background and education:...
- 1835–1846? David Francis Atcherley
- 1846–1861: Robert InghamRobert InghamRobert Ingham was a British barrister and politician.The fourth son of the surgeon William Ingham and his wife Jane Walker, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Ingham was educated at Harrow School and Oriel College, Oxford. He graduated with a B.A. in 1815 and an M.A...
- 1861–1866: William Mathewson Hindmarch
- 1866–1868: Stephen Temple
- 1868–1872: John Richard QuainJohn Richard QuainSir John Richard Quain , judge, youngest son of Richard Quain of Ratheahy, co. Cork, by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Andrew Mahoney, was born at Ratheahy in 1816. Jones Quain and Richard Quain were his half-brothers. He was educated at Göttingen, and at University College, London, where...
- 1872–1886: John Bridge Aspinall
- 1886–1887: Gainsford BruceGainsford BruceSir Gainsford Bruce was a British politician and judge.-Biography:Bruce was born in 1835 in Newcastle upon Tyne the son of the Reverend Dr. Collingwood Bruce a proprietor of a private school and his wife Charlotte ....
- 1887–1901: John Forbes
- 1901–1915: Edward Tindal Atkinson
- 1915–1939: Herbert Francis Manisty
- 1939–? 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