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Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster

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The Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster is the law officer of the Crown for matters arising in the Duchy of Lancaster.

Attorneys-General

  • 1478–1483: Richard Empson
  • 1519–1522: John Hales
  • 1522–1526: Edmund Knightley
  • 1526–1531: Thomas Audley
  • 1531–1535: Robert Wroth
  • 1535–1536: John Baker
  • 1538–1540: William Coningsby
  • 1544–1566: John Caryll
  • 1566–1580: George Bromley
  • 1580–1613: Sir John Brograve
  • 1614–1638: Sir Edward Mosley
  • 1638–1644: Sir Thomas Bedingfield
  • 1644–1649: Bulstrode Whitelocke
  • 1649–1654: Bartholomew Hall
  • 1654–1660: Nicholas Lechmere
  • 1660–1688: John Heath
  • 1689–1714: Edward Northey
  • 1714–1722: Alexander Denton
  • 1727–1728: Spencer Cowper
  • 1733–1736?: Thomas Abney
  • 1758–1763: Fletcher Norton
  • 1770–1777: John Skynner
  • 1777–1810: John Ord
  • fl. 1840: William Russell
  • 1869: Park
  • 1893–1895: Samuel Hall
  • fl. 1931: Sir Herbert Cunliffe
  • 1946–1947: David Jenkins
  • 1947–1951: Gerald Upjohn
  • 1951–1969: Sir Milner Holland
  • 1969–1970: John Brightman
  • 1970–1972: Sydney Templeman
  • 1972–1975: Christopher Slade
  • 1976–1980: Thomas Bingham
  • 1980–1983: Richard Scott
  • 1991–1993: Mary Arden
  • 1993–1996: Timothy Lloyd
  • 1996–2001: Richard McCombe
  • 2001–2006: Michael Briggs
  • 2006–2012: Robert Hildyard
  • 2012–present: Robert Miles

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