Attorney-General of Barbados

According to Article 72 of the Constitution of Barbados, the Attorney-General holds ministerial rank in the government.[1] He may, in the case of certain offences, give general or special directions to the Director of Public Prosecutions, which the latter must follow.

• Robert Hooper c.1693 [2]
• Edward Chilton, 1698 to 1705 [3]
• Thomas Hodges, FRS ?1706 to ?1721 [4]
• Jonathan Blenman, 1726 to [5]
• Blenman 1728 to [5]
• Timothy Blenman, 1741 to [5]
• Henry Beckles, 1770 to 1772 [6]
• Robert Burnett
• Anthony Chester
• Robert Burnett Jones
• John Beckles, 1807 to 1823 [7]
• Matthew Coulthurst, to 1824 [8]
• Samuel Hinds, 1824 to 1826 [9][10]
• Henry Edward Sharpe, 1826 to 1828 [11][12]
• John Paynter Musson, 1828 to 1831 [13][14]
• Henry Edward Sharpe, 1831 to c. 1838 [15][16]
• post of Attorney-General of Barbados vacant, c. 1838 to 1841
• Henry Edward Sharpe, 1841 to 1846 [17][18]
• John Sealy, 1846 to >1869 [19][18]
• Francis Fleming, 1878 to 1882[20]
• William Conrad Reeves, 1882 to 1886
• Sir Henry Alleyne Bovell, 1886 to aft.1893
• G. Aubrey Goodman, 1907 to 1913
• Hon Sir Charles Pitcher Clarke, 1913 to ? (died 1926)
• Ernest Allan Collymore, 1928 to 1936
• Edward Keith Walcott, 1936 to 1946
• Sir William Campbell Wylie, 1951 to 1955
• Barbados became independent, 1966
• Sir Frederick Smith, 1966 to 1971
• George Moe, 1971 to 1976 [21]
• Sir Henry de Boulay Forde, 1976 to 1981 [22]
• Louis Randall Tull, 1981 to 1985[23]
• Sir David Anthony Simmons, 1985 to 1986
• Maurice Athelstan King, 1986 to 1994[24]
• Sir David Anthony Simmons, 1994 to 2001
• Mia Mottley, 2001 to 2003 [1st female]
• Dale Marshall, 2006 to 2008
• Freundel Stuart, 2008 to 2010 (departed the position to become acting PM)
• Adriel Brathwaite, 2010 to 2018
• Dale Marshall, 2018 to Present [25][26]

• Justice ministry
• Politics of Barbados

• The Office of the Attorney-General of Barbados

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