This is an incomplete list of those who have served as Attorney-General of County Durham:

• 1634-1639 Sir Thomas Tempest^[1]
• bef. 1822–1834?: Sir James Scarlett
• 1834?: Sir Frederick Pollock
• 1835–1846? David Francis Atcherley
• 1846–1861: Robert Ingham
• 1861–1866: William Mathewson Hindmarch^[2]
• 1866–1868: Stephen Temple^[3]
• 1868–1872: John Richard Quain^[4][5]
• 1872–1886: John Bridge Aspinall^[6]
• 1886–1887: Gainsford Bruce^[7]
• 1887–1901: John Forbes^[8]
• 1901–1915: Edward Tindal Atkinson^[9]
• 1915–1939: Herbert Francis Manisty
• 1939–1940 James Willoughby Jardine^[10]
• 1941–?: Geoffrey Hugh Benbow Streatfeild^[11]
• 1950–1957: George Raymond Hinchcliffe^[12]
• 1957–1961: Geoffrey de Paiva Veale^[13]
• 1961–1965: George Stanley Waller^[14]
• 1965–1971: Rudolph Lyons^[15]