Solicitors-General, 1461-present incomplete 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 incomplete Ross Cranston 1998-2001 Harriet Harman 2001-
