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Solicitors-General of England (and Wales), 1461-present

15th century

• Richard Fowler 1461-1470
• Richard Page 1470-1483
• Thomas Lynom 1483-1485
• Andrew Dimmock 1485-1503

16th century

• Thomas Lucas 1503-1507
• John Ernley
  John Ernley
  
  Sir John Ernley was a British justice. He was educated at one of the Inns of Chancery from 1478 to 1480 before being admitted to Gray's Inn. By 1490 he was a particularly conspicuous member of the "sussex circle" gathered around Edmund Dudley....
   1507-1514
• John Port
  John Port (the elder)
  
  Sir John Port , judge, was born about 1480 at Chester, where his ancestors had been merchants for some generations : his father, Henry Port, was mayor of Chester in 1486, and his mother was a daughter of Robert Barrow, also a mayor of Chester in 1526....
   1514-1521
• Richard Lyster
  Richard Lyster
  
  Sir Richard Lyster was an English judge and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales ....
   1521-1525
• Christopher Hales
  Christopher Hales
  
  Sir Christopher Hales was an English judge and Master of the Rolls....
   1525-1531
• Baldwin Mallet 1531-1533
• Richard Rich
  Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich
  
  Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich , was Lord Chancellor during the reign of King Edward VI of England. He was the founder of Felsted School in Essex in 1564....
   1533-1536
• William Whorwood
  William Whorwood
  
  Sir William Whorwood was Solicitor General for England and Wales from 1536 to 1540 and then Attorney General for England and Wales under Henry VIII of England until his death....
   1536-1540
• Henry Bradshaw 1540-1545
• Edward Griffin 1545-1552
• John Gosnel 1552-1553
• William Cordell
  William Cordell
  
  Sir Willian Cordell Master of the Rolls and Speaker of the House of Commons during the reign of Mary I of England.Knighted 1558, member of Lincoln's Inn 1538, called to the bar 1544, bencher 1553, reader 1554, a founding member of the Russia Company, received a grant of arms for his father in 1548 and one for himself in 1549, Solicitor G...
   1553-1557
• Richard Weston
  Richard Weston
  
  Richard Weston was an English botany.Weston was originally a thread-hosier of Leicester, but in some of his anonymous works describes himself as "a country gentleman"....
   1557-1559
• William Rosewell
  William Rosewell
  
  William Rosewell was born about 1535, the son of William Rosewell of Loxton, Somerset. He came to some prominence as Solicitor-General to Queen Elizabeth....
   1559-1566
• Richard Onslow
  Richard Onslow (Solicitor General)
  
  Richard Onslow was a 16th century English lawyer who served as Solicitor General for England and Wales and Speaker of the British House of Commons....
   1566-1569
• Sir Thomas Bromley
  Thomas Bromley
  
  Sir Thomas Bromley , England lord chancellor, was born in Staffordshire. He was educated at Oxford University and called to the bar at the Middle Temple....
   1569-1579
• Sir John Popham
  John Popham
  
  Sir John Popham was Speaker of the British House of Commons from 1580 to 1583, Attorney General for England and Wales from 1 June 1581 to 1592 and Lord Chief Justice of England from June 2 1592 to June 1607....
   1579-1581
• Sir Thomas Egerton 1581-1592
• Sir Edward Coke
  Edward Coke
  
  Sir Edward Coke , was a seventeenth-century England jurist and Member of Parliament whose writings on the English common law were the definitive legal texts for nearly 150 years....
   1592-1594
• Thomas Fleming
  Thomas Fleming (judge)
  
  Sir Thomas Fleming , was an England member of Parliament and judge, whose most famous case was the trial of Guy Fawkes in relation to the Gunpowder Plot....
   1595-1604

17th century

• Sir John Doderidge 1604-1607
• Sir Francis Bacon 1607-1613
• Henry Yelverton
  Henry Yelverton
  
  Henry Yelverton may refer to:* Henry Edward Yelverton, 19th Baron Grey de Ruthyn , 19th Century British peer* Henry Yelverton , Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1901 to 1904...
   1613-1617
• Sir Thomas Coventry
  Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry
  
  Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry , was a prominent English lawyer, politician and judge during the early 17th century....
   1617-1621
• Robert Heath
  Robert Heath
  
  Sir Robert Heath was an English lawyer and judge....
   1621-1625
• Sir Richard Sheldon
  Richard Sheldon
  
  Richard Sheldon was the winner of the gold medal in the men's shot put at the 1900 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France. Sheldon, an American, won with a throw of 14.10 m. He also won a bronze medal in the discus throw....
   1625-1634
• Sir Edward Littleton
  Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Lyttleton of Mounslow
  
  Edward, Baron Littleton, also Lyttelton , from Munslow in Shropshire was a Chief Justice of North Wales. He was descended from the judge and legal scholar Thomas de Littleton and his father, also Edward, had been Chief Justice of North Wales before him....
   1634-1640
• Sir Edward Herbert 1640-1641
• Oliver St John
  Oliver St John
  
  Oliver St John , was an England statesman and judge....
   1641-1643 (continued to 1648 under parliament)
• Sir Thomas Gardiner 1643-1645
• Geoffrey Palmer
  Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 1st Baronet
  
  Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 1st Baronet, Serjeant-at-law was an England lawyer and politician.Born in Carlton, Northamptonshire, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1616 and a Master of Arts 1619....
   1645-1649
• Edmund Prideaux
  Edmund Prideaux
  
  Sir Edmund Prideaux was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament.He was elected MP for Lyme Regis in the Long Parliament and represented the constituency until his death in the various parliaments of the Commonwealth of England....
   1648-1649
• John Cooke
  John Cooke (prosecutor)
  
  John Cooke was the first Solicitor General for England and Wales of the Commonwealth of England and led the prosecution of Charles I of England....
   1649-1650
• Robert Reynolds
  Robert Reynolds (Attorney General)
  
  Sir Robert Reynolds was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament who served as Solicitor General for England and Wales and Attorney General for England and Wales during the English Commonwealth period....
   1650-1654
• William Ellis 1654-1660
• Sir Heneage Finch
  Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham
  
  Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Privy Council of England , Lord Chancellor of England, was descended from the old family of Earl of Winchilsea, many of whose members had attained high legal eminence, and was the eldest son of Sir Heneage Finch, recorder of London, by his first wife Frances, daughter of Edmond Bell of Beaupre Hall, Nor...
   1660-1670
• Sir Edward Turnor 1670-1671
• Sir Francis North
  Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford
  
  Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford Privy Council of England , was the third son of the Dudley North, 4th Baron North, and was created Baron Guilford in 1683, after becoming Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in succession to Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham....
   1671-1673
• Sir William Jones 1673-1674
• Sir Francis Winnington 1674-1679
• Heneage Finch
  Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Aylesford
  
  Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Aylesford, Privy Council of Great Britain, King's Counsel was an England lawyer and statesman.Second son of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, he was educated at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated on November 18, 1664....
   1679-1686
• Sir Thomas Powis 1686-1687
• Sir William Williams 1687-1689
• Sir George Treby
  George Treby (judge)
  
  Sir George Treby Justice of the Peace was a British justice and politician....
   1689
• Sir John Somers
  John Somers, 1st Baron Somers
  
  John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Fellow of the Royal Society was Lord Chancellor under William III of England....
   1689-1692
• Sir Thomas Trevor
  Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor
  
  Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor Privy Council of Great Britain , was knighted in 1692 as Solicitor General for England and Wales and in 1695 became Attorney-General....
   1692-1695
• Sir John Hawles 1695-1702

18th century

• Sir Simon Harcourt 1702-1707
• Sir James Montagu 1707-1708
• Robert Eyre
  Robert Eyre
  
  Sir Robert Eyre was an English lawyer, who served as Solicitor General for England and Wales and then as a judge, ultimately as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas....
   1708-1710
• Sir Robert Raymond
  Robert Raymond, 1st Baron Raymond
  
  Robert Raymond, 1st Baron Raymond Privy Council of Great Britain was a United Kingdom judge.In 1725 he was invested as Privy Counsellor.Raymond, a Tory, was appointed as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench on March 2, 1725 until his death....
   1710-1714
• Nicholas Lechmere
  Nicholas Lechmere, 1st Baron Lechmere
  
  Nicholas Lechmere, 1st Baron Lechmere was an English lawyer and politician who served as Attorney-General for England and Wales and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster....
   1714-1715
• John Fortescue Aland 1715-1717
• Sir William Thomson 1717-1720
• Sir Philip Yorke
  Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke
  
  Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke Privy Council of Great Britain , England Lord Chancellor, son of Philip Yorke, a barrister, was born at Dover, England....
   1720-1724
• Sir Clement Wearg 1724-1725
• Charles Talbot
  Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol
  
  Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot Privy Council of Great Britain , was a United Kingdom lawyer and politician. He was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1733 to 1737....
   1726-1733
• Sir Dudley Ryder
  Dudley Ryder (judge)
  
  Sir Dudley Ryder was a United Kingdom politician, judge and diarist.He studied at the nonconformism Hackney Academy and the University of Edinburgh and the Leiden University....
   1733-1737
• John Strange 1737-1742
• William Murray
  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
  
  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield commonly known as Lord Mansfield Serjeant-at-law Privy Council of Great Britain was a British barrister, politician and judge....
   1742-1754
• Sir Richard Lloyd 1754-1756
• Charles Yorke
  Charles Yorke
  
  Charles Yorke was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain....
   1756-1762
• Sir Fletcher Norton
  Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley
  
  Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley Privy Council of Great Britain , was an England politician.He was the eldest son of Thomas Norton of Grantley, Yorkshire....
   1762-1763
• William de Grey
  William de Grey, 1st Baron Walsingham
  
  William de Grey, 1st Baron Walsingham King's Counsel , was a United Kingdom lawyer, judge and politician. He served as Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas between 1771 and 1780....
   1763-1766
• Edward Willes
  Edward Willes
  
  Bishop Edward Willes was Anglican Bishop of St. Davids and later Bath and Wells and one of the most prominent English cryptanalysts of his time....
   1766-1768
• John Dunning
  John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton
  
  John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton was an England lawyer and politician.He was first noticed in English politics when he wrote a notice in 1762 defending the British East India Company merchants against their The Netherlands rivals....
   1768-1770
• Edward Thurlow
  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
  
  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , was a United Kingdom lawyer and Tory politician. He served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain for fourteen years and under four Prime Ministers....
   1770-1771
• Alexander Wedderburn
  Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn
  
  Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn , Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, was the eldest son of Peter Wedderburn , and was born in East Lothian....
   1771-1778
• James Wallace 1778-1780
• James Mansfield
  James Mansfield
  
  Sir James Mansfield , Serjeant-at-law, King's Counsel was a United Kingdom lawyer, judge and politician. He was twice Solicitor General for England and Wales and served as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1799 to 1814....
   1780-1782
• John Lee 1782
• Richard Pepper Arden
  Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley
  
  Sir Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley Privy Council of the United Kingdom, King's Counsel was a British barrister and politician.He was born on 20 May 1744 in Bredbury, the son of John Arden and Mary Pepper, and baptised on 20 June 1744 in Stockport....
   1782-1783
• John Lee 1783
• James Mansfield
  James Mansfield
  
  Sir James Mansfield , Serjeant-at-law, King's Counsel was a United Kingdom lawyer, judge and politician. He was twice Solicitor General for England and Wales and served as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1799 to 1814....
   1783
• Richard Pepper Arden
  Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley
  
  Sir Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley Privy Council of the United Kingdom, King's Counsel was a British barrister and politician.He was born on 20 May 1744 in Bredbury, the son of John Arden and Mary Pepper, and baptised on 20 June 1744 in Stockport....
   1783-1784
• Archibald Macdonald
  Archibald Macdonald
  
  Sir Archibald Macdonald, 13 July 1747–18 May, 1826) was a Great Britain lawyer and politician....
   1784-1788
• Sir John Scott
  John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
  
  John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon , Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. His grandfather, William Scott of Sandgate, a suburb of Newcastle, was clerk to a fitter, a sort of water-carrier and broker of coals....
   1788-1793
• Sir John Mitford 1793-1799
• Sir William Grant 1799-1801

19th century

• Spencer Perceval
  Spencer Perceval
  
  Spencer Perceval, King's Counsel was a United Kingdom statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He is the only British Prime Minister to have been Assassination....
   1801-1802
• Sir Thomas Manners-Sutton
  Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners
  
  Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , was a United Kingdom lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1807 to 1827....
   1802-1805
• Sir Vicary Gibbs
  Vicary Gibbs
  
  Sir Vicary Gibbs, King's Counsel was an England judge and politician. He was known for his caustic wit, which won for him the sobriquet of "Vinegar Gibbs"....
   1805-1806
• Sir Samuel Romilly
  Samuel Romilly
  
  Sir Samuel Romilly , was an England legal reformer.Samuel Romilly was born in Frith Street, Soho, London, the second son of Peter Romilly, a watchmaker and jeweller....
   1806-1807
• Sir Thomas Plumer
  Thomas Plumer
  
  Sir Thomas Plumer, MR was a United Kingdom judge and politician , the first Chancellor of the High Court and later Master of the Rolls.Plumer was educated at Eton College and University College, Oxford, where he was Vinerian Scholarship in 1777, also entering Lincoln's Inn and being called to the bar in 1778....
   1807-1812
• Sir William Garrow
  William Garrow
  
  Sir William Garrow was an English people lawyer born in Middlesex, England. He was admitted by Lincoln's Inn on 27 November 1778 and was call to the Bar on the same date five years later....
   1812-1813
• Sir Robert Dallas
  Robert Dallas
  
  Sir Robert Dallas, Serjeant-at-law, King's Counsel was an England judge, of a Scottish family.Dallas and his brother Sir George Dallas, 1st Baronet were educated first at James Elphinstone's school in Kensington, and then in Geneva, by the pastor Chauvet....
   1813
• Sir Samuel Shepherd 1813-1817
• Sir Robert Gifford
  Robert Gifford, 1st Baron Gifford
  
  Robert Gifford, 1st Baron Gifford , was a United Kingdom lawyer, judge and politician.Gifford was elected to the British House of Commons for Eye in 1817, a seat he represented until 1824, and served under the Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool as Solicitor General for England and Wales between 1817 and 1819 and as Attorney Gen...
   1817-1819
• Sir John Singleton Copley 1819-1824
• Sir Charles Wetherell
  Charles Wetherell
  
  Sir Charles Wetherell was an England judge.He was born in Oxford, and was the third son of Nathan Wetherell of Durham, Master of the University College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford....
   1824-1826
• Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal
  Nicholas Conyngham Tindal
  
  Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal was a celebrated English lawyer who successfully defended Caroline of Brunswick at her trial for adultery in 1820....
   1826-1829
• Sir Edward Burtenshaw Sugden 1829-1830
• Sir William Horne 1830-1832
• Sir John Campbell 1832-1834
• Sir Charles Christopher Pepys 1834
• Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe 1834
• Sir William Webb Follett
  William Webb Follett
  
  Sir William Webb Follett , England lawyer, was born at Topsham in Devon.He was the son of Captain Benjamin Follett, who had retired from the army in 1790, and engaged in business at Topsham....
   1834-1835
• Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe 1835-1839
• Sir Thomas Wilde
  Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro
  
  Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro , Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, was the second son of Thomas Wilde, an attorney. He was born in London and educated at St Paul's School and was admitted an attorney in 1805....
   1839-1841
• Sir William Webb Follett
  William Webb Follett
  
  Sir William Webb Follett , England lawyer, was born at Topsham in Devon.He was the son of Captain Benjamin Follett, who had retired from the army in 1790, and engaged in business at Topsham....
   1841-1844
• Sir Frederic Thesiger
  Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford
  
  Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford , was an England jurist and politician....
   1844-1845
• Sir Fitzroy Kelly
  Fitzroy Kelly
  
  Sir Fitzroy Edward Kelly Privy Counsellor was an England commercial lawyer of remarkable and precocious talent, a politician and a judge.Kelly was born in London, the son of Robert Hawke Kelly , a captain in the Royal Navy, and novellist Isabella Kelly n?e Fordyce....
   1845-1846
• John Jervis
  John Jervis (politician)
  
  Sir John Jervis was an England lawyer, law reformer and Attorney General of England and Wales in the administration of Lord John Russell. He subsequently became a judge and enjoyed a career as a robust but intelligent and innovative jurist, a career cut short by his early and sudden death....
   1846
• Sir David Dundas
  David Dundas (solicitor)
  
  Sir David Dundas, 2nd Baronet Queen's Counsel was a Scotland lawyer and Liberal Party politician.Dundas was educated at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford....
   1846-1848
• Sir John Romilly
  John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly
  
  John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly was an England judge....
   1848-1850
• Sir Alexander Cockburn
  Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet
  
  Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, 12th Baronet Queen's Counsel was an England lawyer, politician and judge. A notorious womaniser and socialite, as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales he heard some of the leading causes c?l?bres of the nineteenth century....
   1850-1851
• Sir William Page Wood 1851-1852
• Sir Fitzroy Kelly
  Fitzroy Kelly
  
  Sir Fitzroy Edward Kelly Privy Counsellor was an England commercial lawyer of remarkable and precocious talent, a politician and a judge.Kelly was born in London, the son of Robert Hawke Kelly , a captain in the Royal Navy, and novellist Isabella Kelly n?e Fordyce....
   1852
• Sir Richard Bethell
  Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury
  
  Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury , Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, was the son of Dr Richard Bethel, and was born at Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire....
   1852-1856
• James Archibald Stuart-Wortley 1856-1857
• Sir Henry Singer Keating
  Henry Singer Keating
  
  Sir Henry Singer Keating was a British lawyer.The son of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Sheehy Keating, he attended Trinity College, Dublin and became a barrister at the Inner Temple in 1832, and a Queen's Counsel in 1849....
   1857-1858
• Sir Hugh McCalmont Cairns 1858-1859
• Sir Henry Singer Keating
  Henry Singer Keating
  
  Sir Henry Singer Keating was a British lawyer.The son of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Sheehy Keating, he attended Trinity College, Dublin and became a barrister at the Inner Temple in 1832, and a Queen's Counsel in 1849....
   1859
• Sir William Atherton
  William Atherton
  
  William Atherton Knight, II , is an American film, theatre and television actor.Atherton was born in Orange, Connecticut, the son of Myrtle and Robert Atherton Knight....
   1859-1861
• Sir Roundell Palmer
  Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne
  
  Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne , Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, was called to the bar in 1837 and entered parliament as a Conservative Party in 1847....
   1861-1863
• Sir Robert Porrett Collier 1863-1866
• Sir William Bovill
  William Bovill
  
  Sir William Bovill , England judge, a younger son of Benjamin Bovill, of Wimbledon, London, was born at Allhallows, Barking.On leaving school, he was articled to a firm of solicitors, but entering the Middle Temple, he practised for a short time as a special pleader below the bar....
   1866
• Sir John Burgess Karslake
  John Burgess Karslake
  
  Sir John Burgess Karslake was an English lawyer and politician.He was appointed a barrister of the Middle Temple in 1846, and a Queen's Counsel in 1861....
   1866-1867
• Sir Charles Jasper Selwyn
  Charles Jasper Selwyn
  
  Sir Charles Jasper Selwyn , judge, Lord Justice.Selwyn, third and youngest son of William Selwyn , and brother of George Augustus Selwyn , Bishop of Lichfield, and of William Selwyn , divine, was born at Church Row, Hampstead, Middlesex, on 13 Oct 1813....
   1867-1868
• Sir William Baliol Brett 1868
• Sir Richard Baggallay
  Richard Baggallay
  
  The Right Honourable Sir Richard Baggallay was a British Judge of the supreme Court of Appeal and also a politician. He sat as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Hereford from 1865 to 1868....
   1868
• Sir John Duke Coleridge
  John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
  
  John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge Privy Council of the United Kingdom , was a United Kingdom lawyer, judge and Liberal Party politician....
   1868-1871
• Sir George Jessel
  George Jessel (jurist)
  
  Sir George Jessel , a United Kingdom judge, was born in London....
   1871-1873
• Sir Henry James
  Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford
  
  Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Queen's Counsel , was an Anglo-Welsh lawyer and statesman....
   1873
• Sir William Vernon Harcourt
  William Vernon Harcourt (politician)
  
  Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt was a United Kingdom lawyer, journalist and Liberal Party statesman.He served as Member of Parliament for various constituencies and held the offices of Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under William Gladstone before becoming Leader of the Opposition ....
   1873-1874
• Sir Richard Baggallay
  Richard Baggallay
  
  The Right Honourable Sir Richard Baggallay was a British Judge of the supreme Court of Appeal and also a politician. He sat as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Hereford from 1865 to 1868....
   1874
• Sir John Holker
  John Holker
  
  Sir John Holker Queen's Counsel was a United Kingdom lawyer and politician. He sat as a Member of Parliament for Preston from 1872 until his death ten years later....
   1874-1875
• Sir Hardinge Giffard
  Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury
  
  Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury was a leading barrister, politician and government Political minister, serving as Solicitor General for England and Wales and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain....
   1875-1880
• Sir Farrer Herschell
  Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell
  
  Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell Order of the Bath Queen's Counsel was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain in 1886, and again from 1892 to 1895....
   1880-1885
• Sir John Eldon Gorst
  John Eldon Gorst
  
  Sir John Eldon Gorst, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was an England lawyer and politician.He served as Solicitor General for England and Wales from 1885 to 1886 and as Secretary of State for Education and Skills between 1895 and 1902....
   1885-1886
• Sir Horace Davey 1886
• Sir Edward George Clarke
  Edward George Clarke
  
  Sir Edward Clarke, QC was a British barrister and politician, considered one of the leading advocates of the late Victorian era and serving as Solicitor General for England and Wales in the Conservative Party government of 1886?1892....
   1886-1892
• Sir John Rigby 1892-1894
• Sir Robert Threshie Reid 1894
• Sir Frank Lockwood
  Frank Lockwood
  
  Sir Frank Lockwood was a famous England lawyer and Liberal Party politician.Lockwood was born in Doncaster. His grandfather and great-grandfather were mayors of Doncaster, and the former for some years filled the office of judge on the racecourse....
   1894-1895
• Sir Robert Finlay
  Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay
  
  Robert Bannatyne Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay, Order of St Michael and St George was a United Kingdom lawyer and politician who became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain....
   1895-1900

20th century

• Sir Edward Carson
  Edward Carson, Baron Carson
  
  Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Bachelor, Queen's Counsel was a leader of the Ulster Unionist Party....
   (7 May 1900 - 4 December 1905)
• Sir William Robson
  William Robson, Baron Robson
  
  William Snowdon Robson, Baron Robson Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Queen's Counsel was a United Kingdom lawyer, judge and Liberal Party politician....
   (12 December 1905 - 28 January 1908)
• Sir Samuel Thomas Evans
  Samuel Thomas Evans
  
  Sir Samuel Thomas Evans Order of the Bath Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council Queen's Counsel , was a Wales barrister, judge and Liberal Party politician....
   (28 January 1908 - 6 March 1910)
• Sir Rufus Isaacs
  Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
  
  Rufus Daniel Isaacs , 1st Marquess of Reading, Order of the Bath, Order of the Star of India, Order of the Indian Empire, Royal Victorian Order, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, King's Counsel, , was an England politician and jurist....
   (6 March 1910 - 7 October 1910)
• Sir John Simon
  John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon
  
  John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon Order of the Star of India Royal Victorian Order Order of the British Empire Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British politician and statesman....
   (7 October 1910 - 19 October 1913)
• Sir Stanley Buckmaster
  Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster
  
  Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster Royal Victorian Order Privy Counsellor, was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom....
   (19 October 1913 - 2 June 1915)
• Sir F. E. Smith
  F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
  
  Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, Order of the Star of India, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom Conservative Party statesman and lawyer of the early 20th century....
   (2 June 1915 - 8 November 1915)
• Sir George Cave
  George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave
  
  George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave, Order of St Michael and St George , King's Counsel , Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom lawyer and Conservative Party politician who became Lord Chancellor....
   (8 November 1915 - 10 December 1916)
• Sir Gordon Hewart
  Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart
  
  Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a politician and Judge in the United Kingdom.Born in Bury, Lancashire, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and University College, Oxford....
   (10 December 1916 - 10 January 1919)
• Sir Ernest Pollock
  Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth
  
  Ernest Murray Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth Order of the British Empire Privy Council of the United Kingdom Queen's Counsel was a United Kingdom Conservative Party Member of Parliament and Master of the Rolls....
   (10 January 1919 - 6 March 1922)
• Sir Leslie Scott
  Leslie Scott (UK politician)
  
  Sir Leslie Frederic Scott, Kings Counsel, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, and later a senior judge....
   (6 March 1922 - 19 October 1922)
• Sir Thomas Inskip
  Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote
  
  Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote Order of the British Empire , Privy Council of the United Kingdom , King's Counsel was a United Kingdom politician who served in many legal posts, culminating in serving as Lord Chancellor from 1939 until 1940....
   (31 October 1922 - 22 January 1924)
• Sir Henry Slesser
  Henry Slesser
  
  Sir Henry Herman Slesser, King's Counsel was a barrister and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom, and later a senior judge.He was born in London as Henry Herman Schloesser, the son of a leather merchant and a concert pianist; he changed his name in 1914, preferring the Anglicised form when Britain went to World War I....
   (23 January 1924 - 3 November 1924)
• Sir Thomas Inskip
  Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote
  
  Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote Order of the British Empire , Privy Council of the United Kingdom , King's Counsel was a United Kingdom politician who served in many legal posts, culminating in serving as Lord Chancellor from 1939 until 1940....
   (11 November 1924 - 28 March 1928)
• Sir Boyd Merriman (28 March 1928 - 5 June 1929)
• Sir James Melville (7 June 1929 -22 October 1930)
• Sir Stafford Cripps
  Stafford Cripps
  
  Sir Richard Stafford Cripps was a British Labour Party politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer from November 1947 to October 1950....
   (22 October 1930 - 24 August 1931)
• Sir Thomas Inskip
  Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote
  
  Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote Order of the British Empire , Privy Council of the United Kingdom , King's Counsel was a United Kingdom politician who served in many legal posts, culminating in serving as Lord Chancellor from 1939 until 1940....
   (3 September 1931 - 26 January 1932)
• Sir Boyd Merriman (26 January 1932 - 29 September 1933)
• Sir Donald Somervell
  Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell
  
  Donald Bradley Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a barrister and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom....
   (29 September 1933 - 19 March 1936)
• Sir Terence O'Connor
  Terence O'Connor
  
  Sir Terence James O'Connor was a Conservative Party politician in the United KingdomHe was elected to the British House of Commons at the United Kingdom general election, 1924, as Member of Parliament for Luton , but lost his seat at the United Kingdom general election, 1929 to the Liberal Party candidate, Edward Leslie Burgin....
   (19 March 1936 - 7 May 1940) (died in office)
• Sir William Jowitt
  William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt
  
  William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, , was a United Kingdom lawyer and politician. He served as Lord Chancellor in the government of Clement Attlee....
   (15 May 1940 - 4 March 1942)
• Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe
  David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
  
  David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir Royal Victorian Order, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Queen's Counsel, was a British people Conservative Party politician, lawyer and judge who combined an industrious and precocious legal career with political ambitions that took him to the offices of Solicitor General for Eng...
   (4 March 1942 - 25 May 1945)
• Sir Walter Monckton
  Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
  
  Walter Turner Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Royal Victorian Order, Order of St Michael and St George, Military Cross, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom politician....
   (25 May 1945 - 26 July 1945)
• Sir Frank Soskice
  Frank Soskice
  
  Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill was a British lawyer and Labour Party politician.Soskice's father was exiled Russian revolutionary journalist David Soskice; his mother was the granddaughter of artist Ford Madox Brown, niece of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and sister of Ford Madox Ford....
   (4 August 1945 - 24 April 1951)
• Sir Lynn Ungoed-Thomas
  Lynn Ungoed-Thomas
  
  Arwyn Lynn Ungoed-Thomas , known as Lynn Ungoed-Thomas, was a Wales Labour Party politician.He was elected at the United Kingdom general election, 1945 as Member of Parliament for the Wales constituency of Llandaff and Barry ....
   (24 April 1951 - 26 October 1951)
• Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller
  Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne
  
  Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne Queen's Counsel Privy Council of the United Kingdom was, as the 1st Baron Dilhorne, Lord Chancellor from 1962 to 1964....
   (3 November 1951 - 18 October 1954)
• Sir Harry Hylton-Foster
  Harry Hylton-Foster
  
  Sir Harry Braustyn Hylton-Foster , was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician who served as an Member of Parliament from 1950 until his death....
   (18 October 1954 - 22 October 1959)
• Sir Jocelyn Simon (22 October 1959 - 8 February 1962)
• Sir John Hobson
  John Hobson (politician)
  
  Sir John Gardiner Sumner Hobson Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician....
   (8 February 1962 - 19 July 1962)
• Sir Peter Rawlinson (19 July 1962 - 16 October 1964)
• Sir Dingle Foot
  Dingle Foot
  
  Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot, Queen's Counsel was a British lawyer and politician, born in Plymouth, Devon.He was educated at Bembridge School, a famous boys' independent school on the Isle of Wight, and at Balliol College, Oxford University, and was called to the bar in 1930....
   (18 October 1964 - 24 August 1967)
• Sir Arthur Irvine
  Arthur Irvine
  
  Sir Arthur James Irvine, Queen's counsel was a United Kingdom politician.Irvine was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Oriel College, Oxford, where he was president of the Oxford Union in 1932....
   (24 August 1967 - 19 June 1970)
• Sir Geoffrey Howe
  Geoffrey Howe
  
  Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon Order of the Companions of Honour Queen's Counsel Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council , previously known as Sir Geoffrey Howe, is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician....
   (23 June 1970 - 5 November 1972)
• Sir Michael Havers
  Michael Havers, Baron Havers
  
  Robert Michael Oldfield Havers, Baron Havers, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Queen's Counsel was a United Kingdom barrister and politician....
   (5 November 1972 - 4 March 1974)
• Peter Archer
  Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell
  
  Peter Kingsley Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , is a Labour Party member of the House of Lords.He was previously the Member of Parliament for Rowley Regis and Tipton and for Warley West , having first been elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1966 until his retirement at the United Kingdom...
   (7 March 1974 - 4 May 1979)
• Sir Ian Percival
  Ian Percival
  
  Sir Walter Ian Percival Queen's Counsel , known as Ian Percival, was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician.Percival was educated at Latymer Upper School and St....
   (5 May 1979 - 13 June 1983)
• Sir Patrick Mayhew (13 June 1983 - 13 June 1987)
• Sir Nicholas Lyell
  Nicholas Lyell
  
  Nicholas Walter Lyell, Baron Lyell of Markyate, Queen's Counsel, Privy Council of the United Kingdom is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician and was for much of his active political career known as Sir Nicholas Lyell....
   (13 June 1987 - 15 April 1992)
• Sir Derek Spencer
  Derek Spencer
  
  Sir Derek Harold Spencer, Queen's Counsel , is a Great Britain Conservative Party politician.Born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, Spencer became Member of Parliament for the Leicester South in the United Kingdom general election, 1983 of 1983, by just 7 votes — the smallest margin in the country....
   (15 April 1992 - 2 May 1997)
• Lord Falconer of Thoroton
  Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton
  
  Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Queen's Counsel is a United Kingdom barrister and Labour Party politician....
   (6 May 1997 - 28 July 1998)
• Ross Cranston
  Ross Cranston
  
  Sir Ross Frederick Cranston Queen%27s_Counsel , styled The Hon. Mr Justice Cranston, is a High Court judge, formerly an academic lawyer and Labour Party politician, in the United Kingdom....
   (28 July 1998 - 11 June 2001)

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