This is an incomplete list of those who have served as Attorney-General of County Durham: 1634-1639 Sir Thomas TempestDurham County Record Office,CCB B/189/17/1. (220506). 15 November 1634 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

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