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