List of Privy Counsellors (1936–1952)

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, =

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

= George VI, 1936-=

1937

*Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose (1873–1950)
*Robert Gordon Menzies (1894–1978)
*John Stephen Curlewis (1863–1940)
*Walter John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch (1894–1973)
*Sir Harry Trelawney Eve (1856–1940)
*Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson (1882–1942)
*Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent (1902–1942)
*Edward Leslie Burgin (1887–1945)
*Ernest Lapointe (1876–1941)
*Sir Patrick Duncan (1870–1943)
*George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway (1882–1943)
*Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Baron Gowrie (1872–1955)
*John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875–1940)
*Sir Felix Cassel (1869–1953)
*Isaac Foot (1880–1960)
*Sir George Loyd Courthope (1877–1955)
*Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence (1871–1962)
*Sir Robert William Hugh O'Neill (1883–1982)
*Henry Snell, 1st Baron Snell (1865–1944)
*Sir Frank Douglas MacKinnon (1871–1946)
*Sir Thomas Gardner Horridge (1857–1938)
*Sir George John Talbot (1861–1938)
*Sir Robert Leslie Craigie (1883–1959)
*Sir John Anderson (1882–1958)

1938

*Robert Spear Hudson (1886–1957)
*George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan (1860–1949)
*Sir Albert Charles Clauson (1870–1946)
*Samuel Lowry Porter, Baron Porter (1877–1956)
*James Stratford (1869–1952)
*Sir Donald Bradley Somervell (1889–1960)
*William Finlay, 2nd Viscount Finlay (1875–1945)
*Sir Arthur Fairfax Charles Coryndon Luxmoore (1876–1944)
*Sir Rayner Goddard (1877–1971)
*Sir Herbert du Parcq (1880–1949)

1939

*Aretas Akers-Douglas, 2nd Viscount Chilston (1876–1947)
*Rab Butler (1902–1982)
*Henry Frederick Comfort Crookshank (1893–1961)
*Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith (1899–1977)
*Alfred Earle Montacute Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield (1873–1967)
*Mukund Ramras Jayakar (died 1959)
*Richard Gardiner Casey (1890–1976)
*James Gray Stuart (1897–1971)
*Herwald Ramsbotham (1887–1971)
*Sir Philip James Macdonell (1873–1940)
*Philip Percy Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian (1882–1940)
*Maurice Paschal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey (1877–1963)
*Geoffrey Francis Fisher (1887–1972)
*Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell (1883–1953)
*Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet (1873–1960)

1940

*Sir Andrew Rae Duncan (1884–1952)
*Sir George Arthur Harwin Branson (1871–1951)
*Sir John Charles Walsham Reith (1889–1971)
*Frederick James Marquis, 1st Baron Woolton (1883–1964)
*Ernest Bevin (1881–1951)
*Brendan Rendall Bracken (1901–1958)
*Sir Walter McLennan Citrine (1887–1983)
*Ronald Hibbert Cross (1896–1968)
*Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton (1887–1962)
*Sir Charles Edwards (1867–1954)
*Sir Percy Alfred Harris (1876–1952)
*Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart (1881–1957)
*Peter Fraser (1884–1950)
*Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton (1903–1973)
*Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne (1893–1972)
*John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon (1884–1964)
*Oliver Lyttelton (1893–1972)
*Arthur Blaikie Purvis (1890–1941)

1941

*Douglas Clifton-Brown (1879–1958)
*Sir Walter James Womersley (1878–1961)
*Sir James Arthur Salter (1881–1975)
*Frederick James Leathers (1883–1965)
*John Jestyn Llewellin (1893–1957)
*Vincent Massey (1887–1967)
*James Scott Cumberland Reid (1890–1975)
*Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson (1880–1964)
*Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (1889–1952)
*Raoul Dandurand (1861–1942)
*Gwilym Lloyd George (1894–1967)
*Harold Harrington Balfour (1897–1988)
*Tom Williams (1888–1967)
*Sir Sidney Abrahams (1885–1957)
*Sir Chattur Madhavan Nair (1879–1971)

1942

*Maurice Harold Macmillan (1894–1986)
*Sir Percy James Grigg (1890–1964)
*Wyndham Portal, 1st Baron Portal (1885–1949)
*John Curtin (1885–1945)
*Arthur William Fadden (1895–1973)
*Herbert Vere Evatt (1894–1965)
*Cyril Forster Garbett (1875–1955)
*George Henry Hall (1881–1965)

1943

*Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Baron Cherwell (1886–1957)
*Richard Kidston Law (1901–1980)
*Osbert Peake (1897–1966)
*William Whiteley (1882–1955)
*Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Templemore (1880–1953)
*Geoffrey William Lloyd (1902–1984)
*Joseph Westwood (1884–1948)
*Harcourt Johnstone (1895–1945)
*Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles (1887–1981)
*Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Viscount Wavell (1883–1950)
*Henry Urmston Willink (1894–1973)
*Ernest Frederick Watermeyer (1880–1958)
*Ben Smith (1879–1964)

1944

*Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr (1882–1951)
*Ralph Assheton (1901–1984)
*William Mabane (1895–1969)
*Wilfred Paling (1883–1971)
*Charles Waterhouse (1893–1975)
*Sir Gavin Turnbull Simonds (1881–1971)
*James Chuter Ede (1882–1965)
*Francis Michael Forde (1890–1983)
*Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (1880–1971)
*Sir John William Fisher Beaumont (1877–1974)
*Sir Fergus Dunlop Morton (1887–1973)
*Duncan Edwin Sandys (1908–1987)
*Sir Edward William Macleay Grigg (1879–1955)

1945

*Florence Horsbrugh (1889–1969)
*Ellen Cecily Wilkinson (1891–1947)
*Sir Richard Valentine Nind Hopkins (1880–1955)
*Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery (1882–1974)
*Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft (1881–1947)
*Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe (1900–1967)
*Jack Lawson (1881–1965)
*James Milner (1889–1967)
*Sir Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare (1893–1980)
*William James Thorne (1857–1946)
*Henry Graham White (1880–1965)
*Joseph Benedict Chifley (1885–1951)
*Alfred Barnes (1887–1974)
*George Alfred Isaacs (1883–1979)
*John Wilmot (1895–1964)
*Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)
*Emanuel Shinwell (1884–1986)
*George Reid Thomson (1893–1962)
*John William Charles Wand (1885–1977)
*Reginald Thomas Herbert Fletcher (1885–1961)
*James Griffiths (1890–1975)
*Sir Cuthbert Morley Headlam (1876–1964)
*Malcolm Stewart McCorquodale (1901–1971)
*Lewis Silkin (1889–1972)
*George Tomlinson (1890–1952)
*Edward John Williams (1890–1963)
*Charles George Ammon, 1st Baron Ammon (1873–1960)
*James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn (1869–1953)
*Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894–1948)
*Sir Frederick James Tucker (1888–1975)
*Gideon Brand van Zyl (1873–1956)
*Philip John Noel-Baker (1889–1982)
*Sir Alfred Townsend Bucknill (1880–1963)

1946

*Sir Travers Humphreys (1867–1956)
*Louis Stephen St Laurent (1882–1973)
*James Lorimer Isley (1894–1967)
*Walter Nash (1882–1968)
*Augustus Andrewes Uthwatt, Baron Uthwatt (1879–1949)
*John Albert Beasley (1895–1949)
*Sir Cyril Asquith (1890–1954)
*Sir Lionel Leonard Cohen (1888–1973)
*William Joseph Jordan (1879–1959)
*Evelyn John St Loe Strachey (1901–1963)
*Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan (1884–1968)
*Charles Clive Bigham, 2nd Viscount Mersey (1872–1956)
*Clarence Decatur Howe (1886–1960)
*William Francis Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel (1906–1997)
*Sir Hartley Shawcross (1902–2003)
*Harry Louis Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan (1889–1963)
*Frederick John Bellenger (1894–1968)
*Arthur Creech Jones (1891–1964)
*Hector McNeil (1907–1955)

1947

*Clement Edward Davies (1884–1962)
*Ian Alistair MacKenzie (1890–1949)
*William Glenvil Hall (1887–1962)
*Arthur Henderson (1893–1968)
*James Garfield Gardiner (1883–1962)
*Charles William Key (1883–1964)
*Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma (1900–1979)
*Philip Albert Inman, 1st Baron Inman (1892–1979)
*Alexander Moncreiff (died 1949)
*Sir Frederic John Wrottesley (1880–1948)
*Sir Francis Raymond Evershed (1899–1966)
*John Clarke MacDermott (1896–1979)
*George Mathers (1886–1965)
*Sir Godfrey Huggins (1883–1971)
*Thomas Sivewright Catto, 1st Baron Catto (1879–1959)
*Sir William Norman Birkett (1883–1962)
*Ness Edwards (1897–1968)
*James Harold Wilson (1916–1995)
*Thibaudeau Rinfret (1879–1962)
*Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (1906–1963)
*John Thomas Wheatley (1908–1988)
*Arthur Woodburn (1890–1978)
*George Russell Strauss (1901–1993)

1948

*Sir Malcolm Martin Macnaghten (1869–1955)
*George Buchanan (1890–1955)
*David Kirkwood (1872–1955)
*William John McKell (1891–1985)
*Sir Humphrey Francis O'Leary (1886–1953)
*George Heaton Nicholls (1876–1959)
*Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford (1905–2001)
*Sir Frank Soskice (1902–1979)
*Sir John Edward Singleton (1885–1957)
*Sir Alfred Thompson Denning (1899–1999)

1949

*William Malcolm Hailey, 1st Baron Hailey (1872–1969)
*Hilary Adair Marquand (1901–1972)
*Edith Summerskill (1901–1980)
*Sir David Llewellyn Jenkins (1899–1969)
*Cyril John Radcliffe, 1st Baron Radcliffe (1899–1977)
*Robert Craigmyle Morrison, 1st Baron Morrison (1881–1953)
* John Dugdale (1905–1963)
*Sir Oliver Shewell Franks (1905–1992)
*William Donald Patrick (1889–1967)
*Sir Alfred Henry Lionel Leach (1883–1960)

1950

*Sir Ronald Ian Campbell (1890–1983)
*Edward James Holloway (1875–1967)
*Don Stephen Senanayake (1884–1952)
*Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker (1907–1980)
*Maurice Webb (1904–1956)
*Richard Rapier Stokes (1897–1957)
*Sidney George Holland (1893–1963)
*William Watson Henderson, 1st Baron Henderson (1891–1984)

1951

*Henry Charles Ponsonby Moore, 10th Earl of Drogheda (1884–1957)
*Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor (1888–1966)
*Sir Francis Lord Charlton Hodson (1895–1984)
*Sir Owen Dixon (1886–1972)
*Alfred Robens (1910–1999)
*George Alfred Brown (1914–1985)
*Sir John William Morris (1896–1979)
*David Rhys Grenfell (1881–1968)
*Kenneth Younger (1908–1976)
*David Rees Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore (1903–1976)
*Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887–1965)
*Sir Walter Monckton (1891–1965)
*Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn (1901–1974)
*John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd (1904–1978)
*George Edward Peter Thorneycroft (1909–1994)
*William Philip Sidney, 6th Baron de L'Isle (1909–1991)
*James Purdon Lewes Thomas (1903–1960)
*David McAdam Eccles (1904–1999)
*Anthony Henry Head (1906–1983)
*Sir Thomas Lionel Dugdale (1897–1977)
*Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd (1904–1983)
*James Latham McDiarmid Clyde (1898–1975)
*Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home (1903–1995)
*Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, Duchess of Edinburgh (born 1926), became Queen 1952
*Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1921)
*Sir Charles Robert Ritchie Romer (1897–1969)

1952

*George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd (1881–1954)
*Arthur George Bottomley (1907–1995)
*Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay (1907–1996)
*Robert John Taylor (1881–1954)
*Charles Williams (1886–1955)