United Kingdom Solicitor General

Solicitors-General, 1461-present

• Richard Fowler 1461-1470
• Richard Page 1470-1483
• Thomas Lynom 1483-1485
• Andrew dimmock 1485-1503
• Thomas Lucas 1503-1507
• John Ernley 1507-1514
• John Port 1514-1521
• Richard Lyster 1521-1525
• Christopher Hales 1525-1531
• Baldwin Mallet 1531-1533
• Richard Rich 1533-1536
• William Whorwode 1536-1540
• Henry Bradshaw 1540-1545
• Edward Griffin 1545-1552
• John Gosnel 1552-1553
• William Cordell 1553-1557
• Richard Weston 1557-1559
• Richard Roswell 1559-1566
• Richard Onslow 1566-1569
• Sir Thomas Bromley 1569-1579
• Sir John Popham 1579-1581
• Sir Thomas Egerton 1581-1592
• Sir Edward Coke 1592-1594
• Thomas Fleming 1595-1604
• Sir John Doderidge 1604-1607
• Sir Francis Bacon 1607-1613
• Henry Yelverton 1613-1617
• Sir Thomas Coventry 1617-1621
• Robert Heath 1621-1625
• Sir Richard Sheldon 1625-1634
• Sir Edward Littleton 1634-1640
• Sir Edward Herbert 1640-1641
• Oliver St John 1641-1643 (continued to 1648 under parliament)
• Sir Thomas Gardiner 1643-1645
• Geoffrey Palmer 1645-1649
• Edmund Prideaux 1648-1649
• John Cook 1649-1650
• Robert Reynolds 1650-1654
• William Ellis 1654-1660
• Sir Heneage Finch 1660-1670
• Sir Edward Turner 1670-1671
• Sir Francis North 1671-1673
• Sir William Jones 1673-1674
• Sir Francis Winnington 1674-1679
• Heneage Finch 1679-1686
• Sir Thomas Powis 1686-1687
• Sir William Williams 1687-1689
• Sir George Treby 1689
• Sir John Somers 1689-1692
• Sir Thomas Trevor 1692-1695
• Sir John Hawles 1695-1702
• Sir Simon Harcourt 1702-1707
• Sir James Montagu 1707-1708
• Robert Eyre 1708-1710
• Sir Robert Raymond 1710-1714
• Nicholas Lechmere 1714-1715
• John Fortescue Aland 1715-1717
• Sir William thomson 1717-1720
• Sir Philip Yorke 1720-1724
• Sir Clement Wearg 1724-1725
• Charles Talbot 1726-1734
• Sir Dudley Ryder 1726-1734
• John Strange 1737-1742
• William Murray 1742-1754
• Sir Richard Lloyd 1754-1756
• Charles Yorke 1756-1762
• Fletcher Norton 1762-1763
• William de Grey 1763-1766
• Edward Willes 1766-1768
• John Dunning 1768-1770
• Edward Thurlow 1770-1771
• Alexander Wedderburn 1771-1778
• James Wallace 1778-1780
• James Mansfield 1780-1782
• John Lee 1782
• Richard Pepper Arden 1782-1783
• John Lee 1783
• James Mansfield 1783
• Richard Pepper Arden 1783-1784
• Archibald Macdonald 1784-1788
• Sir John Scott 1788-1793
• Sir John Mitford 1793-1799
• Sir William Grant 1799-1801
• Spencer Perceval 1801-1802
• Sir Thomas Manners Sutton 1802-1805
• Sir Vicary Gibbs 1805-1806
• Sir Samuel Romilly 1806-1807
• Sir Thomas Plumer 1807-1812
• Sir William Garrow 1812-1813
• Sir Robert Dallas 1813
• Sir Samuel Shepherd 1813-1817
• Sir Robert Giffard 1817-1819
• Sir John Singleton Copley 1819-1824
• Sir Charles Wetherell 1824-1826
• Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal 1826-1829
• Sir Edward Burtenshaw Sugden 1829-1830
• Sir William Horne 1830-1832
• Sir John Campbell 1832-1834
• Sir Charles Christopher Pepys 1834
• Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe 1834
• Sir William Webb Follett 1834-1835
• Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe 1835-1839
• Sir Thomas Wilde 1839-1841
• Sir William Webb Follett 1841-1844
• Sir Frederic Thesiger 1844-1845
• Sir Fitzroy Kelly 1845-1846
• John Jervis 1846
• Sir David Dundas 1846-1848
• Sir John Romilly 1848-1850
• Sir Alexander Cockburn 1850-1851
• Sir William Page Wood 1851-1852
• Sir Fitzroy Kelly 1852
• Sir Richard Bethell 1852-1856
• James Stuart Wortley 1856-1857
• Sir Henry Singer Keating 1857-1858
• Sir Hugh McCalmont Cairns 1858-1859
• Sir Henry Singer Keating 1859
• Sir William Atherton 1859-1861
• Sir Roundell Palmer 1861-1863
• Sir Robert Porrett Collier 1863-1866
• Sir William Bovill 1866
• Sir John Burgess Karslake 1866-1867
• Sir Charles Jasper Selwyn 1867-1868
• Sir William Baliol Brett 1868
• Sir Richard Baggallay 1868
• Sir John Duke Coleridge 1868-1871
• Sir George Jessel 1871-1873
• Sir Henry James 1873
• Sir William Vernon Harcourt 1873-1874
• Sir Richard Baggallay 1874
• Sir John Holker 1874-1875
• Sir Hardinge Giffard 1875-1880
• Sir Farrer Herschell 1880-1885
• Sir John Eldon Gorst 1885-1886
• Sir Horace Davey 1886
• Sir Edward George Clarke 1886-1892
• Sir John Rigby 1892-1894
• Sir Robert Threshie Reid 1894

• Ross Cranston 1998-2001
• Harriet Harman 2001-

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