List of attorneys-general of Durham

This is an incomplete list of those who have served as Attorney-General of County Durham:

• 1634-1639 Sir Thomas Tempest
• 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
• 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