Judge Advocate General
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This page is about the British Judge Advocate General. For the U.S. Judge Advocate General's Corps, see here.
The following article was lifted straight from the 1894 edition of Haydn's Book of Dignities and needs updating.
The Judge Advocate General and Judge Martial of all the Forces is an officer of considerable responsibility. He is the legal adviser of the Sovereign and of the commander-in-chief in military cases, and by his authority all general courts-martial are held. In his office are deposited the originals of all such proceedings, and on his receipt of them they are examined, and either deposited as correct, or communicated upon, or submitted by the Judge Advocate General to Her Majesty for royal approval, or for pardon, or revision, as, in the opinion of this officer, the case may require. The office has been for many years a political one, the holder resigning on a change of ministry.
Judge Advocates General
Down to 1847 the dates are those of actual entrance upon office, not of the appointment, which is usually a few days earlier; or of the patent, commonly some days later than those adopted in this list. After 1847 the dates are those of the Gazette notices of the appointment.
- January 1666: Dr Samuel Barrowe
- 1684: George Clarke
- 1705: Thomas Byde
- 1715: Edward Hughes
- 1734: Sir Henry Hoghton, 5th Baronet
- 1741: Thomas Morgan
- 1768: Charles Gould (knighted 1779; created a baronet and assumed the name of Morgan 1792)
- 8 March 1806: Nathaniel Bond
- 4 December 1807: Richard Ryder
- 8 November 1809: Charles Manners-Sutton
- 25 June 1817: John Beckett (succeeded as 2nd Baronet 1826)
- 12 May 1827: James Abercromby
- 2 February 1828: Sir John Beckett, 2nd Baronet
- 2 December 1830: Robert Grant (knighted 1834)
- 7 July 1834: Robert Cutlar Fergusson
- 22 December 1834: Sir John Beckett, 2nd Baronet
- 25 April 1835: Robert Cutlar Fergusson
- 6 November 1838: William St Julien Arabin
- 21 February 1839: Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet
- 26 June 1841: Richard Lalor Shiel
- 14 September 1841: John Nicholl
- 31 January 1846: James Stuart Wortley
- 14 July 1846: Charles Buller
- 30 December 1847: William Goodenough Hayter
- 26 May 1849: Sir David Dundas
- 28 February 1852: George Bankes
- 30 December 1852: The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers
- 13 March 1858: John Robert Mowbray
- 24 June 1859: Thomas Emerson Headlam
- 12 July 1866: John Robert Mowbray
- 16 December 1868: Sir Colman Michael O'Loghlen
- 28 December 1870: John Robert Davison
- 17 May 1871: Sir Robert Joseph Phillimore (held the office pending a rearrangement of its duties)
- 21 August 1873: Acton Smee Ayrton
- 7 March 1874: Stephen Cave
- 24 November 1875: George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck
- 7 May 1880: George Osborne Morgan
- 13 July 1885: William Thackeray Marriott
- 22 February 1886: John William Mellor
- 9 August 1886: William Thackeray Marriott
- incomplete
Source: Haydn's Book of Dignities, 12th ed. (1894; reprinted 1969)