Attorneys General from 1660 list incomplete Sir Geoffrey Palmer 1660-1670 Sir Heneage Finch 1670-1673 Sir Francis North 1673-1675 Sir William Jones 1675-1679 Sir Creswell Levinge 1679-1681 Sir Robert Sawyer 1681-1687 Sir Thomas Powis 1687-1688 Sir Henry Pollexfen 1689 Sir George Treby 1689-1692 Sir John Somers 1692-1693 Sir Edward Ward 1693-1695 Sir Thomas Trevor 1695-1701 Sir Edward Northey 1701-1707 Sir Simon Harcourt 1707-1708 Sir James Montague 1708-1710 Sir Simon Harcourt 1710 Sir Edward Northey 1710-1718 Sir Nicholas Lechmere 1718-1720 Sir Robert Raymond 1720-1724 Sir Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke 1724-1734 Sir John Willes 1734-1737 Sir Dudley Ryder 1737-1754 William Murray 1754-1756 Sir Robert Henley 1756-1757 Sir Charles Pratt 1757-1762 Charles Yorke 1762-1763 Sir Fletcher Norton 1763-1765 Charles Yorke 1765-1766 William de Grey 1766-1771 Edward Thurlow 1771-1778 Alexander Wedderburn 1778-1780 James Wallace 1780-1782 Lloyd Kenyon 1782-1783 James Wallace 1783 John Lee 1783 Lloyd Kenyon 1783-1784 Richard Pepper Arden 1784-1788 Sir Archibald Macdonald 1788-1793 Sir John Scott 1793-1799 Sir John Mitford 1799-1801 Sir Edward Law 1801-1802 Spencer Perceval 1802-1806 Sir Arthur Piggott 1806-1807 Sir Vicary Gibbs 1807-1812 Sir Thomas Plumer 1812-1813 Sir William Garrow 1813-1817 Sir Samuel Shepherd 1817-1819 Sir Robert Gifford 1819-1824 Sir John Singleton Copley 1824-1826 Sir Charles Wetherell 1826-1827 Sir James Scarlett 1827-1828 Sir Charles Wetherell 1828-1829 Sir James Scarlett 1829-1830 Sir Thomas Denman 1830-1832 Sir William Horne 1832-1834 Sir John Campbell 1834 Sir Frederick Pollock 1834-1835 Sir John Campbell 1835-1841 Sir Thomas Wilde 1841 Sir Frederick Pollock 1841-1844 Sir William Webb Follett 1844-1845 Sir Frederic Thesiger 1845-1846 Sir Thomas Wilde 1846 Sir John Jervis 1846-1850 Sir John Romilly 1850-1851 Sir Alexander Cockburn 1851-1852 Sir Frederic Thesiger 1852 Sir Alexander Cockburn 1852-1856 Sir Richard Bethell 1856-1858 Sir Fitzroy Kelly 1858-1859 Sir Richard Bethell 1859-1861 Sir William Atherton 1861-1863 Sir Roundell Palmer 1863-1866 Sir Hugh McCalmont Cairns 1866 Sir John Rolt 1866-1867 Sir John Burgess Karslake 1867-1868 Sir Robert Porrett Collier 1868-1871 Sir John Duke Coleridge 1871-1873 Sir Henry James 1873-1874 Sir John Burgess Karslake 1874 Sir Richard Baggallay 1874-1875 Sir John Holker 1875-1880 Sir Henry James 1880-1885 Sir Richard Everard Webster 1885-1886 Sir Charles Arthur Russell 1886 Sir Richard Everard Webster 1886-1892 Sir Charles Arthur Russell 1892-1894 Sir John Rigby 1894 Sir Robert Threshie Reid 1894-1895 Sir Richard Everard Webster 1895-1900 Sir Robert Bannatyne Finlay 1900-1906 incomplete Peter Henry Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith 2001-