Attorney General for England and Wales Attorney General for Northern Ireland
In office 10 April 1992 – 2 May 1997
Prime Minister
John Major
Preceded by
Patrick Mayhew
Succeeded by
John Morris
Solicitor General for England and Wales
In office 13 June 1987 – 10 April 1992
Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher John Major
Preceded by
Patrick Mayhew
Succeeded by
Derek Spencer
Member of Parliament for North East Bedfordshire
In office 1 May 1997 – 14 May 2001
Preceded by
Constituency established
Succeeded by
Alistair Burt
Member of Parliament for Mid Bedfordshire
In office 9 June 1983 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by
Stephen Hastings
Succeeded by
Jonathan Sayeed
Member of Parliament for Hemel Hempstead
In office 3 May 1979 – 13 May 1983
Preceded by
Robin Corbett
Succeeded by
Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born
(1938-12-06)6 December 1938 London, England
Died
30 August 2010(2010-08-30) (aged 71) Berkhamsted, England
Political party
Conservative
Alma mater
Christ Church, Oxford
Nicholas Walter Lyell, Baron Lyell of Markyate, PC, QC (6 December 1938 – 30 August 2010) was an English Conservative politician, known for much of his active political career as Sir Nicholas Lyell.
Nicholas Walter Lyell, Baron Lyell of Markyate, PC, QC (6 December 1938 – 30 August 2010) was an English Conservative politician, known for much of his...
of Charles Anthony Lyell Maurice Lyell (1901 – 1975), lawyer NicholasLyell, Baron Lyell of Markyate (1938–2010), British Conservative politician at the...
Gravesend 1974 Tim Brinton Conservative Robin Corbett Hemel Hempstead 1974 NicholasLyell Conservative Alan Lee Williams Hornchurch 1974 Robin Squire Conservative...
previously represented in parliament by the former Attorney General NicholasLyell who had retired. Burt was elected with a majority of 8,577; he was made...
1993, according to a written answer given by the Attorney General, NicholasLyell, on 28 October 1993. In 1994, Atkinson co-authored the book Treason...
Murdoch and J. B. Priestley, Directed by Val May. Gore-Booth and Sir NicholasLyell in Half the Picture, adapted by Richard Norton-Taylor With additional...
for a year in 1994. In 1996 he became the PPS to the Attorney General NicholasLyell and in 1997 he was briefly the PPS to the Chancellor of the Duchy of...
at the 1997 general election, having defeated the incumbent MP, Sir NicholasLyell, the Attorney General, for the nomination, and held the seat until 2005...
back up the claim that Hess was murdered, and Solicitor General Sir NicholasLyell saw no grounds for further investigation. The autopsy results supported...
Margaret Thatcher John Major Preceded by Michael Havers Succeeded by Sir NicholasLyell Solicitor General for England and Wales In office 13 June 1983 – 13...
original on 13 August 2003. Nicholas Watt (2 August 2002). "The rebirth of John". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 April 2020. Nicholas Watt (2 August 2002). "The...
British Government's Attorneys General have included Dominic Grieve, NicholasLyell, Patrick Mayhew, John Hobson, Reginald Manningham-Buller, Lionel Heald...
24 July in the House of Commons, with the Shadow Attorney General, NicholasLyell, welcoming it - saying that it "enables the Attorney-General and the...
Nott – Secretary of State for Trade and President of the Board of Trade Nicholas Edwards – Secretary of State for Wales January 1981 – Francis Pym succeeded...
investigation eventually proved inconclusive in 1993, when Attorney General Sir NicholasLyell decided that proceeding with the investigation would not serve the public...
James Montagu 1707–1708 Robert Eyre 1708–1710 Sir Robert Raymond 1710–1714 Nicholas Lechmere 1714–1715 John Fortescue Aland 1715–1717 Sir William Thomson 1717–1720...
bench in 1971, and died on 27 May 1975. He was the father of NicholasLyell, Baron Lyell of Markyate, Attorney-General from 1992 to 1997. Drennan, Basil...
general election, when he was succeeded by fellow-Conservative Sir NicholasLyell. Hastings quickly established his credentials on the Right of the party...
May 1997 Labour Neil Kinnock John Smith Margaret Beckett Tony Blair NicholasLyell 2 May 1997 19 June 1997 Conservative John Major Edward Garnier 19 June...
Executive, Jonathan Shephard, with a negotiating team including Lord (Nicholas) Lyell, the former Attorney General; the solicitor and mediator Tony Willis...
William Inge and Hugo de Louther (1291–1293) John de Mutford (1293–1299) Nicholas de Warwick (1299) John de Cestria (1300–1301) John de Mutford (1301–1308)...
office 15 April 1992 – 2 May 1997 Prime Minister John Major Preceded by NicholasLyell Succeeded by Lord Falconer of Thoroton Member of Parliament for Brighton...
(1915–1998), Royal Air Force officer, golfer, author and MP NicholasLyell, Baron Lyell of Markyate (1938–2010), English Conservative politician, Solicitor-General...