The Attorney General of the Leeward Islands was the chief law officer of the Leeward Islands. The British crown colony of the Leeward Islands, comprising Antigua, Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla, and (to 1940) Dominica, existed as a political entity, under various names, from 1671 to 1958, when it became part of the West Indies Federation.

Attorneys General of the Leeward Islands

;British Colony, 1671–1871 * 1688–1702 (or 1692)

Archibald Hutcheson Archibald Hutcheson (ca. 1659 – 12 August 1740) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1727. Hutcheson was the son of Archibald Hutcheson of Stranocum, Co. Antrim. He trained as a barrister and was called to the ...

* c.1713 John Yeamans * 1751– John Baker * 1754–1757 Harry Webb * 1757–?1779 Thomas Warner (died 1779) * 1779–?1780 William Leslie Hamilton (died 1780) * 1781–1799 John Stanley * c.1810 John Burke * c.1820 Paul Horsford * c.1830 Charles Thomson * c.1840 William Lee ;Federal Colony of the Leeward Islands, 1871–1956 * 1870– Henry Rawlins Pipon Schooles * 1874–1877 Robert French Sheriff * 1877–1878

Henry Spencer Berkeley Sir Henry Spencer Hardtman Berkeley (6 September 1851 – 30 September 1918 ), was a barrister, Attorney General and Chief Justice of Fiji and Attorney-General of Hong Kong. Early life Berkeley was the third son of Thomas Berkeley Hardt ...

(acting) * 1878–1879 Henry James Burford Hancock * 1880–1883 Sir

John Tankerville Goldney Sir John Tankerville Goldney (15 June 1846 – 11 April 1920) was a British barrister who rose to be Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago, and was also High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1910. He is also notable for introducing golf to Singapore in 1 ...

* 1883–1885 Stephen Herbert Gatty (afterwards Attorney General of Trinidad, 1886) * 1886–1889 Charles Robert Tyser (later Chief Justice of Cyprus, 1906) * 1889–1894 Charles George Walpole * 1894–1898 Oliver Smith * 1898–>1903 William Henry Stoker * 1909–1917 Thomas Stafford Sidney * 1927–1929

Harry Herbert Trusted Sir Harry Herbert Trusted (27 June 1888 – 8 December 1985) was a British colonial Attorney-General and Chief Justice. Education Trusted was educated at Ellesmere College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He studied law at the Inner Temple, but jo ...

(afterwards Attorney General of Cyprus, 1929) * 1937–1938 Cecil Edgar Allan Rawle *c.1945 Stanley Eugene Gomes, afterwards Chief Justice of Barbados, 1957 * ?–1957 Percival Cecil Lewis * 1957–1959 Wilfred Ebenezer Jacobs * ''Joined West Indies Federation, 1958''

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