Attorney General is in England.
Patent Rolls. 20th April 1461. York [Map]. Appointment for life of Henry Sotehill [aged 43] as attorney general in all courts of record in England, receiving the accustomed fees, with power of appointing deputies. By ps.
Vacated by surrender and cancelled 11 July, 11 Edward IV.
On 16th June 1471 William Hussey [aged 28] was appointed Attorney General.
In 1485 William Hody [aged 44] was appointed Attorney General.
In 1552 Edward Griffin [aged 52] was appointed Attorney General.
In 1581 John Popham [aged 50] was appointed Attorney General which post he held for eleven years until 1592.
Around 1617 Henry Yelverton [aged 50] was appointed Attorney General.
In 1625 Robert Heath [aged 49] was appointed Attorney General by King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland [aged 24].
After April 1640 Peter Ball was appointed Attorney General to Henrietta Maria Bourbon Queen Consort England [aged 30].
On 31st May 1660 Geoffrey Palmer 1st Baronet [aged 62] was appointed Attorney General.
John Evelyn's Diary. 11th January 1662. I received of Sir Peter Ball, the Queen's [aged 52] attorney, a draft of an Act against the nuisance of the smoke of London, to be reformed by removing several trades which are the cause of it, and endanger the health of the King [aged 31] and his people. It was to have been offered to the Parliament, as his Majesty commanded.
In 1720 Thomas Marlay [aged 40] was appointed Attorney General for Ireland.
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In April 1783 John Lee [aged 51] was appointed Attorney General which position he held until Nov 1783.
In 1793 John Scott 1st Earl Eldon [aged 41] was appointed Attorney General.
In 1871 John Duke Coleridge 1st Baron Coleridge [aged 50] was appointed Attorney General which office he held until 1873.