List of Privy Counsellors (1936-1952)

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List of current members of the Privy Council

This is a List of Privy Counsellors of the United Kingdom appointed between the accession of King Edward VIII in 1936 and the death of King George VI in 1952.

Edward VIII, 1936

• 1936 Sir Akbar Hydari (1869-1942)
• 1936 Sir George Edward Rich (1863-1956)
• 1936 Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk (1908-1975)
• 1936 Michael Joseph Savage (1872-1940)
• 1936 Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr (1900-1976)
• 1936 David John Colville (1894-1954)
• 1936 David Euan Wallace (1892-1941)
• 1936 Henry Hugh Arthur Fitzroy Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort (1900-1984)
• 1936 George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland (1888-1963)
• 1936 Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge (1894-1960)
• 1936 William Shepherd Morrison (1893-1961)

George VI, 1936-1952

• 1937 Robert Hutchinson, 1st Baron Hutchinson (1873-1950)
• 1937 Robert Gordon Menzies (1894-1978)
• 1937 John Stephen Curlewis (1863-1940)
• 1937 Walter John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch (1894-1973)
• 1937 Sir Harry Trelawney Eve (1856-1940)
• 1937 Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson (1882-1942)
• 1937 Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent (1902-1942)
• 1937 Edward Leslie Burgin (1887-1945)
• 1937 Ernest Lapointe (1876-1941)
• 1937 Sir Patrick Duncan (1870-1943)
• 1937 George Vere Arundell Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway (1882-1943)
• 1937 Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Baron Gowrie (1872-1955)
• 1937 John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940)
• 1937 Sir Felix Cassel (1869-1953)
• 1937 Isaac Foot (1880-1960)
• 1937 Sir George Loyd Courthope (1877-1955)
• 1937 Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence (1871-1962)
• 1937 Sir Robert William Hugh O'Neill (1883-1982)
• 1937 Henry Snell, 1st Baron Snell (1865-1944)
• 1937 Sir Frank Douglas MacKinnon (1871-1946)
• 1937 Sir Thomas Gardner Horridge (1857-1938)
• 1937 Sir George John Talbot (1861-1938)
• 1937 Sir Robert Leslie Craigie (1883-1959)
• 1937 Sir John Anderson (1882-1958)
• 1938 Robert Spear Hudson (1886-1957)
• 1938 George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan (1860-1949)
• 1938 Sir Albert Charles Clauson (1870-1946)
• 1938 Samuel Lowry Porter, 1st Baron Porter (1877-1956)
• 1938 James Stratford (1869-1952)
• 1938 Sir Donald Bradley Somervell (1889-1960)
• 1938 William Finlay, 2nd Viscount Finlay (1875-1945)
• 1938 Sir Arthur Fairfax Charles Coryndon Luxmoore (1876-1944)
• 1938 Sir Rayner Goddard (1877-1971)
• 1938 Sir Herbert du Parcq (1880-1949)
• 1939 Aretas Akers-Douglas, 2nd Viscount Chilston (1876-1947)
• 1939 Rab Butler (1902-1982)
• 1939 Henry Frederick Comfort Crookshank (1893-1961)
• 1939 Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith (1899-1977)
• 1939 Alfred Earle Montacute Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield (1873-1967)
• 1939 Mukund Ramras Jayakar (d.1959)
• 1939 Richard Gardiner Casey (1890-1976)
• 1939 James Gray Stuart (1897-1971)
• 1939 Herwald Ramsbotham (1887-1971)
• 1939 Sir Philip James Macdonell (1873-1940)
• 1939 Philip Percy Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian (1882-1940)
• 1939 Maurice Paschal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey (1877-1963)
• 1939 Geoffrey Francis Fisher (1887-1972)
• 1939 Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell (1883-1953)
• 1939 Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet (1873-1960)
• 1940 Sir Andrew Rae Duncan (1884-1952)
• 1940 Sir George Arthur Harwin Branson (1871-1951)
• 1940 Sir John Charles Walsham Reith (1889-1971)
• 1940 Frederick James Marquis, 1st Baron Woolton (1883-1964)
• 1940 Ernest Bevin (1881-1951)
• 1940 Brendan Rendall Bracken (1901-1958)
• 1940 Sir Walter McLennan Citrine (1887-1983)
• 1940 Ronald Hibbert Cross (1896-1968)
• 1940 Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton (1887-1962)
• 1940 Sir Charles Edwards (1867-1954)
• 1940 Sir Percy Alfred Harris (1876-1952)
• 1940 Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart (1881-1957)
• 1940 Peter Fraser (1884-1950)
• 1940 Alfred Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Brandon (1903-1973)
• 1940 Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne (1893-1972)
• 1940 John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon (1884-1964)
• 1940 Oliver Lyttelton (1893-1972)
• 1940 Arthur Blaikie Purvis (1890-1941)
• 1941 Douglas Clifton-Brown (1879-1958)
• 1941 Sir Walter James Womersley (1878-1961)
• 1941 Sir James Arthur Salter (1881-1975)
• 1941 Frederick James Leathers (1883-1965)
• 1941 John Jestyn Llewellin (1893-1957)
• 1941 Vincent Massey (1887-1967)
• 1941 John Scott Cumberland Reid (1890-1975)
• 1941 Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson (1880-1964)
• 1941 Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (1889-1952)
• 1941 Raoul Dandurand (1861-1942)
• 1941 Gwilym Lloyd George (1894-1967)
• 1941 Harold Harrington Balfour (1897-1988)
• 1941 Tom Williams (1888-1967)
• 1941 Sir Sidney Solomon Abrahams (1885-1957)
• 1941 Sir Chattur Madhavan Nair (1879-1971)
• 1942 Maurice Harold Macmillan (1894-1986)
• 1942 Sir Percy James Grigg (1890-1964)
• 1942 Wyndham Portal, 1st Baron Portal (1885-1949)
• 1942 John Curtin (1885-1945)
• 1942 Arthur William Fadden (1895-1973)
• 1942 Herbert Vere Evatt (1894-1965)
• 1942 Cyril Foster Garbett (1875-1955)
• 1942 George Henry Hall (1881-1965)
• 1943 Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Baron Cherwell (1886-1957)
• 1943 Richard Kidston Law (1901-1980)
• 1943 Osbert Peake (1897-1966)
• 1943 William Whiteley (1882-1955)
• 1943 Arthur Claud Spencer Chichester, 1st Baron Templemore (1880-1953)
• 1943 Geoffrey William Lloyd (1902-1984)
• 1943 Joseph Westwood (1884-1948)
• 1943 Harcourt Johnstone (1895-1945)
• 1943 Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles (1887-1981)
• 1943 Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Viscount Wavell (1883-1950)
• 1943 Henry Urmston Willink (1894-1973)
• 1943 Ernest Frederick Watermeyer (1880-1958)
• 1943 Ben Smith (1879-1964)
• 1944 Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr (1882-1951)
• 1944 Ralph Assheton (1901-1984)
• 1944 William Mabane (1895-1969)
• 1944 Wilfred Paling (1883-1971)
• 1944 Charles Waterhouse (1893-1975)
• 1944 Sir Gavin Turnbull Simonds (1881-1971)
• 1944 James Chuter Ede (1882-1965)
• 1944 Francis Michael Forde (1890-1983)
• 1944 Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (1880-1971)
• 1944 Sir John William Fisher Beaumont (1877-1974)
• 1944 Sir Fergus Dunlop Morton (1887-1973)
• 1944 Duncan Edwin Sandys (1908-1987)
• 1944 Sir Edward William Macleay Grigg (1879-1955)
• 1945 Florence Horsbrugh (1889-1969)
• 1945 Ellen Cecily Wilkinson (1891-1947)
• 1945 Sir Richard Valentine Nind Hopkins (1880-1955)
• 1945 Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery (1882-1974)
• 1945 Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft (1881-1947)
• 1945 Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe (1900-1967)
• 1945 Jack Lawson (1881-1965)
• 1945 James Milner (1889-1967)
• 1945 Sir Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare (1893-1980)
• 1945 William James Thorne (1857-1946)
• 1945 Henry Graham White (1880-1965)
• 1945 Joseph Benedict Chifley (1885-1951)
• 1945 Alfred Barnes (1887-1974)
• 1945 George Alfred Isaacs (1883-1979)
• 1945 John Wilmot (1895-1964)
• 1945 Aneurin Bevan (1897-1960)
• 1945 Emanuel Shinwell (1884-1986)
• 1945 George Reid Thomson (1893-1962)
• 1945 John William Charles Wand (1885-1977)
• 1945 Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher (1885-1961)
• 1945 James Griffiths (1890-1975)
• 1945 Sir Cuthbert Morley Headlam (1876-1964)
• 1945 Malcolm Stewart McCorquodale (1901-1971)
• 1945 Lewis Silkin (1889-1972)
• 1945 George Tomlinson (1890-1952)
• 1945 Edward John Williams (1890-1963)
• 1945 Charles George Ammon, 1st Baron Ammon (1873-1960)
• 1945 James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn (1869-1953)
• 1945 Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894-1948)
• 1945 Sir Frederick James Tucker (1888-1975)
• 1945 Gideon Brand van Zyl (1873-1956)
• 1945 Philip John Noel-Baker (1889-1982)
• 1945 Sir Alfred Townsend Bucknill (1880-1963)
• 1946 Sir Travers Humphreys (1867-1956)
• 1946 Louis Stephen St Laurent (1882-1973)
• 1946 James Lorimer Isley (1894-1967)
• 1946 Walter Nash (1882-1968)
• 1946 Augustus Andrewes Uthwatt, 1st Baron Uthwatt (1879-1949)
• 1946 John Albert Beasley (1895-1949)
• 1946 Sir Cyril Asquith (1890-1954)
• 1946 Sir Lionel Leonard Cohen (1888-1973)
• 1946 William Joseph Jordan (1879-1959)
• 1946 Evelyn John St Loe Strachey (1901-1963)
• 1946 Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan (1884-1968)
• 1946 Charles Clive Bigham, 2nd Viscount Mersey (1872-1956)
• 1946 Clarence Decatur Howe (1886-1960)
• 1946 Walter Francis Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel (1906-1997)
• 1946 Sir Hartley William Shawcross (1902-2003)
• 1946 Harry Louis Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan (1889-1963)
• 1946 Frederick John Bellenger (1894-1968)
• 1946 Arthur Creech Jones (1891-1964)
• 1946 Hector McNeil (1907-1955)
• 1947 Clement Edward Davies (1884-1962)
• 1947 Ian Alistair MacKenzie (1890-1949)
• 1947 William Glenvil Hall (1887-1962)
• 1947 Arthur Henderson (1893-1968)
• 1947 James Garfield Gardiner (1883-1962)
• 1947 Charles William Key (1883-1964)
• 1947 Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979)
• 1947 Philip Albert Inman, 1st Baron Inman (1892-1979)
• 1947 Alexander Moncreiff (d.1949)
• 1947 Sir Frederic John Wrottesley (1880-1948)
• 1947 Sir Francis Raymond Evershed (1899-1966)
• 1947 John Clarke MacDermott (1896-1979)
• 1947 George Mathers (1886-1965)
• 1947 Sir Geoffrey Huggins (1883-1971)
• 1947 Thomas Sivewright Catto, 1st Baron Catto (1879-1959)
• 1947 Sir William Norman Birkett (1883-1962)
• 1947 Ness Edwards (1897-1968)
• 1947 James Harold Wilson (1916-1995)
• 1947 Thibaudeau Rinfret (1879-1962)
• 1947 Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (1906-1963)
• 1947 John Wheatley (1908-1988)
• 1947 Arthur Woodburn (1890-1978)
• 1947 George Russell Strauss (1901-1993)
• 1948 Sir Malcolm Martin Macnaghten (1869-1955)
• 1948 George Buchanan (1890-1955)
• 1948 David Kirkwood (1872-1955)
• 1948 William John McKell (1891-1985)
• 1948 Sir Humphrey Francis O'Leary (1886-1953)
• 1948 George Heaton Nicholls (1876-1959)
• 1948 Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford (1905-2001)
• 1948 Sir Frank Soskice (1902-1979)
• 1948 Sir John Edward Singleton (1885-1957)
• 1948 Sir Alfred Thompson Denning (1899-1999)
• 1949 William Malcolm Hailey, 1st Baron Hailey (1872-1969)
• 1949 Hilary Adair Marquand (1901-1972)
• 1949 Edith Summerskill (1901-1980)
• 1949 Sir David Llewellyn Jenkins (1899-1969)
• 1949 Cyril John Radcliffe, 1st Baron Radcliffe (1899-1977)
• 1949 Robert Craigmyle Morrison, 1st Baron Morrison (1881-1953)
• 1949 John Dugdale (1905-1963)
• 1949 Sir Oliver Shewell Franks (1905-1992)
• 1949 William Donald Patrick (1889-1967)
• 1949 Sir Alfred Henry Lionel Leach (1883-1960)
• 1950 Sir Ronald Ian Campbell (1890-1983)
• 1950 Edward James Holloway (1875-1967)
• 1950 Don Stephen Senanayake (1884-1952)
• 1950 Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker (1907-1980)
• 1950 Maurice Webb (1904-1956)
• 1950 Richard Rapier Stokes (1897-1957)
• 1950 Sidney George Holland (1893-1963)
• 1950 William Watson Henderson, 1st Baron Henderson (1891-1984)
• 1951 Henry Charles Ponsonby Moore, 10th Earl of Drogheda (1884-1957)
• 1951 Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor (1888-1966)
• 1951 Sir Francis Lord Charlton Hodson (1895-1984)
• 1951 Sir Owen Dixon (1886-1972)
• 1951 Alfred Robens (1910-1999)
• 1951 George Alfred Brown (1914-1985)
• 1951 Sir John William Morris (1896-1979)
• 1951 David Rhys Grenfell (1881-1968)
• 1951 Kenneth Gilmour Younger (1908-1976)
• 1951 David Rees Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore (1903-1976)
• 1951 Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887-1965)
• 1951 Sir Walter Monckton (1891-1965)
• 1951 Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn (1901-1974)
• 1951 John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd (1904-1978)
• 1951 George Edward Peter Thorneycroft (1909-1994)
• 1951 William Philip Sidney, 6th Baron de L'Isle (1909-1991)
• 1951 James Purdon Lewes Thomas (1903-1960)
• 1951 David McAdam Eccles (1904-1999)
• 1951 Antony Henry Head (1906-1983)
• 1951 Sir Thomas Lionel Dugdale (1897-1977)
• 1951 Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd (1904-1983)
• 1951 James Latham McDiarmid Clyde (1898-1975)
• 1951 Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home (1903-1995)
• 1951 Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, Duchess of Edinburgh (b.1926), became Queen 1952
• 1951 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b.1921)
• 1951 Sir Charles Robert Ritchie Romer (1897-1969)
• 1952 George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd (1881-1954)
• 1952 Arthur George Bottomley (1907-1995)
• 1952 Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay (1907-1996)
• 1952 Robert John Taylor (1881-1954)
• 1952 Charles Williams (1886-1955)