Some #Attorneys General are interesting, others are long forgotten. The office is ancient; going back before William Inge in 1286 AD but after The Norman Conquest in 1066 AD. Some served King and Country - unlike virtually all modern politicians. One of them, Michael Havers got a grip of the RSPCA, a charity gone wrong.
William Inge [ 1286–1289 ]
John of Gaunt [ 1356 - 1360 ] according to the List of Attorneys General ex Wiki but not the article itself.
John Walton [ 1905 - 1908 ]
William Robson, Baron Robson [ 1908 - 1910 ]
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading [ 1910 - 1913 ]
Jew
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon [ 1913 - 1915 ]
In H. H. Asquith's coalition government in May 1915, Simon became Home Secretary, declining an offer of the Lord Chancellorship, but he resigned early the next year in protest against the illiberal introduction of conscription. He proved his patriotism by serving briefly as an officer on Trenchard's staff in the Royal Flying Corps.After Asquith's fall in late 1916, Simon remained in opposition as an Asquithian Liberal until he lost his seat, at the "Coupon Election" in 1918.
Edward Carson [ 1915 ]
In 1895, he was engaged by the Marquess of Queensberry to lead his defence against Oscar Wilde's action for criminal libel. The Marquess, angry at Wilde's ongoing homosexual relationship with his son, Lord Alfred Douglas, had left his calling card at Wilde's club with an inscription accusing Wilde of being a "posing somdomite" [sic]. Wilde retaliated with a libel action, as homosexuality was, at the time, illegal.Kevin Myers states that Carson's initial response was to refuse to take the case. Later, he discovered that Queensberry had been telling the truth about Wilde's activity and was therefore not guilty of the libel of which Wilde accused him.[8]
Carson and Wilde had known each other when they were students at Trinity College, Dublin and, when he heard that Carson was to lead the defence, Wilde is quoted as saying that "No doubt he will pursue his case with all the added bitterness of an old friend."[9] In fact, Carson went out of his way to make his case and destroy Wilde[citation needed], portraying the playwright as a morally depraved hedonist who seduced naïve young men into a life of homosexuality with lavish gifts and promises of a glamorous artistic lifestyle. He impugned Wilde's works as morally repugnant and designed to corrupt the upbringing of the youth. Queensberry spent a considerable amount of money on private detectives who investigated Wilde's activity in the London underworld of homosexual clubs and procurers.
Wilde abandoned the case when Carson announced in his opening speech for the defence that he planned to call several male prostitutes who would testify that they had had sex with Wilde, which would have rendered the libel charge unsupportable as the accusation would have been proven true. Wilde was bankrupted when he was then ordered to pay the considerable legal and detective bills Queensberry had incurred in his defence.
Based on the evidence of Queensberry's detectives and Carson's cross-examinations of Wilde at the trial, Wilde was subsequently prosecuted for gross indecency in a second trial. He was eventually found guilty and sentenced to two years' hard labour, after which he moved to France, where he died penniless.
F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead [ 1915 - 1919 ]
Gobby, drunkard.
Smith had joined the Territorial Army by commission into the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, in which Churchill was already an officer, in 1913,[3] and was a captain in the regiment[6] before the outbreak of the First World War. On its outbreak he was placed in charge of the Government's Press Bureau, with rank of full Colonel and responsibility for newspaper censorship. He was not very successful in this role, and in 1914–1915 served in France as a Staff Officer with the Indian Corps with ultimate temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.[6] He and his successor as 'Recording Officer' (a Colonel Merewether) later collaborated on an official history entitled The Indian Corps in France (published 1917).[7]
Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart LCJ. [ 1919 - 1922 ]
Wrote The New Despotism, which dealt with political abuse of power circa 1920.
Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth [ 1922 ]
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham [ 1922 - 1928 ] with an interregnum
Born in London, Hogg was the son of the merchant and philanthropist Quintin Hogg, seventh son of Sir James Hogg, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Cheam School and Eton College, before studying sugar growing in the West Indies. After serving in the Boer War he was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1902, was appointed King's Counsel in 1917, and became a bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1920.[1]
William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt [ 1929 - 1932 ]
Miserable looking bugger
Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote [ 1928 - 1929 & 1932 - 1936 ]
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow [ 1936 - 1945 ]
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir [ 1945 ]
One of the prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials, he was instrumental in drafting the European Convention on Human Rights. However, he was also a controversial Home Secretary who refused clemency to commute Derek Bentley's highly controversial death sentence. His political ambitions were ultimately dashed in Harold Macmillan's cabinet reshuffle of July 1962.
Hartley Shawcross [ 1945 - 1951 ]
Hartley William Shawcross, Baron Shawcross GBE PC QC (4 February 1902 – 10 July 2003), known from 1945 to 1959 as Sir Hartley Shawcross, was a British barrister and politician and the lead British prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. Hartley William Shawcross was born to John and Hilda Shawcross in Germany, whilst his father was teaching English at Giessen University. He was educated at Dulwich College, the London School of Economics and the University of Geneva[1] and sat for the Bar at Gray's Inn, where he won first-class honours.
Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill [ 1951 ]
Soskice's father was the exiled Russian revolutionary journalist David Soskice; his mother was the granddaughter of artist Ford Madox Brown, niece of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and sister of Ford Madox Ford. Soskice was educated at the Froebel Demonstration School, St Paul's School, London, and Balliol College, Oxford. He studied law and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1926. He served in the British Army with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during World War II.[1]
Lionel Heald [ 1951 - 1954 ]
Heald was born in Parrs Wood, Didsbury, Lancashire. He was educated at Charterhouse, then served in France and Italy during World War I in the Royal Engineers, and was awarded the Italian Bronze Medal of Military Valor. After demobilization, he went to Christ Church, Oxford as a Holford exhibitioner, reading literae humaniores and graduating with a BA in 1920.[1]
Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne [ 1954 - 1962 ]
In 1957 Manningham-Buller prosecuted suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams for the murder of two elderly widows in Eastbourne, Edith Alice Morrell and Gertrude Hullett. Adams was acquitted on the Morrell charge but Manningham-Buller controversially entered a nolle prosequi regarding Hullett. Not only was there seemingly little reason to enter it (Adams was not suffering from ill health), but the Hullett charge was deemed by many to be the stronger of the two cases. Mr Justice Patrick Devlin, the presiding judge, in his post-trial book termed Manningham-Buller's act "an abuse of process".[2] Devlin also criticised Manningham-Buller for his uncharacteristic weakness at a crucial moment in the Morrell case: evidence (some nurses' notebooks) that had gone missing from the Director of Public Prosecutions's files, turned up in the hands of the defence on the second day of the trial. Manningham-Buller claimed he had not seen them before but failed to halt their admission as evidence, or ask for time to acquaint himself with their contents. They were subsequently used by the defence to throw doubt on the accuracy of the testimony of various nurses who had worked with Adams and who had questioned his methods and intentions. This damaged the prosecution tremendously, fatally scuppering the case. Manningham-Buller's handling of the case later provoked questions in the House of Commons.
PS Conspiracy or cock up? Did Adams' face fit? He was crooked.
John Hobson [ 1962 - 1964 ]
Hobson was educated at Harrow and Brasenose College, Oxford, graduating with a second-class degree in History in 1934. Hobson was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1938 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1957. During World War II he served with the British Army, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. For his military service, he was appointed OBE and mentioned in dispatches.[1]
Frederick Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones [ 1964 - 1970 ]
He became a barrister and Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil. He was also a broadcaster and journalist. He served as junior British Counsel during the Nuremberg Trials.[1] and led for the prosecution (Leading Prosecutor) at the Hamburg trial of Marshal Erich von Manstein in 1948.In 1966 he led the prosecution of the Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell [ 1970 - 1974 ]
Rawlinson was born on 26 June 1919, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel A. R. Rawlinson OBE, a figure in military intelligence and a screenwriter.He was educated by Benedictine monks at Downside, near Bath, and read Law at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge Footlights. He was later elected as an Honorary Fellow of his college in 1981. However, he only completed one year at the university, moving on to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, on the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. He joined the Irish Guards in 1940, where he remained until he was demobilized as a Major in 1946, having been Mentioned in Despatches in 1943.
Samuel Silkin, Baron Silkin of Dulwich [ 1974 -1979 ]
Jew
Michael Havers, Baron Havers [ 1979 - 1987 ]
He served during World War II with the Royal Navy, as a 19-year-old Midshipman on HMS Sirius attached to Force Q in the Mediterranean. On 10 September 1943, he was promoted from temporary acting sub-lieutenant to temporary sub-lieutenant.[2] Following the end of the war, he transferred to the permanent Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during April 1947 in the rank of lieutenant seniority from 1 August 1945.[3]
Patrick Mayhew [ 1987 - 1992 ]
He was educated at Tonbridge School, an all boys public school in Tonbridge, Kent.He then served as an officer in the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, studied law at Balliol College, Oxford, and was president of the Oxford University Conservative Association and of the Oxford Union.[1] He was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1955.
Nicholas Lyell, Baron Lyell of Markyate [ 1992 - 1997 ]
Lyell was at the centre of the Matrix Churchill affair, the controversy to sell arms to Saddam Hussein's Iraq. In 1996, the Scott Report directly criticised Lyell as Attorney General for trying to obtain a "gagging order" to prevent the disclosure of secret documents concerning machine tool and material supply to Baghdad. Prime Minister John Major chose to stand by Lyell.[2]Lyell colluded in Treason At Maastricht or not as the case may be by alleging that Francis Maude and Douglas Hurd had no case to answer against charges of misprision of treason.
John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon KG [ 1997 - 1999 ]
Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn [ 1999 - 2001 ]
Welsh
Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith [ 2001 - 2007 ]
Jew
Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal [ 2007 - 2010 ]
Fat black lump, Wiki alleges that she is British - it lies.
In 2009 Scotland employed Lolo Tapui, an illegal immigrant. Tapui had been using a forged passport for the period up to and including December 2008. She began to employ Tapui in January 2009. Tapui was later jailed for eight months for fraud, possessing a false identity stamp, and overstaying her U.K. visa. At her trial Tapui admitted to having been paid £95,000 by the Daily Mail. She was later deported to native Tonga.[53]Scotland had earlier been fined £5,000 for not keeping, as an employer, copies of documents used to check Tapui's immigration status, under rules Scotland helped draft as a Home Office minister. The investigation found that Scotland had not knowingly employed an illegal worker.[54]
PS
Brown Will Not Sack Guilty Attorney General [ 22 September 2009 ]
Baroness Scotland Invited To Prove She Is Obeying The Law She Made [ 17 September 2009 ]
Labour Attorney General Is From A Crime Family [ 4 October 2009 ]
She is black so her face fits.
Dominic Grieve [ 2010 - 2014 ]
Keen on wrecking amendments to ruin Brexit. Said that Pakistanis are deeply corrupt then bottled out when the mob turned on him. Speaks French.
Jeremy Wright [ 2014 - 9 July 2018 ]
Geoffrey Cox ex Wiki [ 9 July 2018 - 2020 ]
Charles Geoffrey Cox QC MP[1] (born 30 April 1960) is a British politician and barrister. He has been the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Torridge and West Devon since 2005. He worked as a barrister from 1982 onwards and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2003. On 9 July 2018, he was appointed Attorney General and gave up private practice; prior to this he had been the highest earning MP in the UK.[2]
Sound on Fox Hunting, supports the Lamerton Hunt but doesn't(?) ride to hounds.
Suella Braverman ex Wiki [ February 2020 - present ]
Is a Third World alien going easy on Blacks?
Attorney General for England and Wales ex Wiki
Her Majesty's Attorney General for England and Wales, usually known simply as the Attorney General (A.G), is one of the Law Officers of the Crown. The Attorney General serves as the chief legal adviser to the Crown and the Government in England and Wales. The Solicitor General for England and Wales servers as the next in command and is subordinate the Attorney General.The position of Attorney General existed since at least 1243, when records show a professional attorney was hired to represent the King's interests in court. The position first took on a political role in 1461 when the holder of the office was summoned to the House of Lords to advise the government there on legal matters. In 1673 the Attorney General officially became the Crown's adviser and representative in legal matters, although still specialising in litigation rather than advice. The beginning of the twentieth century saw a shift away from litigation and more towards legal advice. Today prosecutions are carried out by the Crown Prosecution Service and most legal advice to government departments is provided by the Government Legal Service, both under the supervision of the Attorney General.
The job of the Attorney General is a demanding one, and Sir Patrick Hastings wrote while serving that "to be a law officer is to be in hell".[1] Duties include superintending the Crown Prosecution Service, the Serious Fraud Office, and other government lawyers with the authority to prosecute cases. Additionally, the Attorney General superintends the Government Legal Department (formerly the Treasury Solicitor's Department), HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate and the Service Prosecuting Authority. The Attorney advises the government, individual government departments and individual government ministers on legal matters, answering questions in Parliament and bringing "unduly lenient" sentences and points of law to the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. Since the passing of the Law Officers Act 1997 duties can be delegated to the Solicitor General, and any actions are treated as if they came from the Attorney General.
Grieve Trying To Screw England [ 20 January 2019 ]
QUOTE
Alex Wickham has scooped the Sundays by getting hold of Grieve’s Proposed Amendment to let a minority take control of the parliamentary legislative agenda:PROPOSED AMENDMENT 1 TO SECTION 13(6) MOTION
As an Amendment to the Motion tabled for the purposes of section 13(6) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2017
Leave out from “House” to end and insert “believes that [INSERT DECLARATORY WORDS RELATING TO NEED TO PREVENT NO DEAL BREXIT), and orders accordingly that — (1) On [DATE OF SUBSEQUENT SITTING DAY TO BE INSERTED]..................If his amendment passes a minority of 300 MPs across five parties – with only 10 Tories needed – would be able to control the parliamentary agenda. Effectively creating a minority opposition controlled legislature.
It is possible that this draft might be a ruse, so that it looks more like a reasonable compromise when they go for a straight majority in parliament taking control of legislative agenda from government. This is all designed to stop Brexit happening on March 29th without a deal in place. It is a coup against the expressed will of the people…
UNQUOTE
Grieve [ ex Attorney General ] is an arrogant rogue with an agenda, one who has decided that he knows how to run our lives better than we do. He hates Democracy; demonstrating that anyone wants to be in politics should be barred for that reason. No deal is the way to go, it's good enough for at least 80% of world trade, why not ours?