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