List of Privy Counsellors (1936–1952)

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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[]

• Sir Akbar Hydari (1869–1942)^[1]
• Sir George Rich (1863–1956)^[1]
• The Duke of Norfolk (1908–1975)^[2]
• Michael Joseph Savage (1872–1940)^[2]
• The Earl De La Warr (1900–1976)^[3]
• John Colville (1894–1954)^[3]
• Euan Wallace (1892–1941)^[4]
• The Duke of Beaufort (1900–1984)^[5]
• The Duke of Sutherland (1888–1963)^[5]
• Hon. Alec Hardinge (1894–1960)^[5]
• William Morrison (1893–1961)^[6]

George VI, 1936–1952[]

1937[]

• The Lord Hutchison of Montrose (1873–1950)^[7]
• Robert Menzies (1894–1978)^[7]
• John Stephen Curlewis (1863–1940)^[8]
• The Duke of Buccleuch (1894–1973)^[9]
• Sir Harry Eve (1856–1940)^[9]
• Sir Nevile Henderson (1882–1942)^[10]
• Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902–1942)^[11]
• Leslie Burgin (1887–1945)^[12]
• Ernest Lapointe (1876–1941)^[12]
• Sir Patrick Duncan (1870–1943)^[13]
• The Viscount Galway (1882–1943)^[13]
• The Lord Gowrie (1872–1955)^[13]
• The Lord Tweedsmuir (1875–1940)^[13]
• Sir Felix Cassel, Bt (1869–1953)^[14]
• Isaac Foot (1880–1960)^[14]
• Sir George Courthope, Bt (1877–1955)^[14]
• Frederick Pethick-Lawrence (1871–1962)^[14]
• Hon. Sir Hugh O'Neill (1883–1982)^[14]
• The Lord Snell (1865–1944)^[14]
• Sir Frank MacKinnon (1871–1946)^[14]
• Sir Thomas Horridge (1857–1938)^[14]
• Sir George Talbot (1861–1938)^[14]
• Sir Robert Craigie (1883–1959)^[15]

1938[]

• Sir John Anderson (1882–1958)^[16]
• Robert Hudson (1886–1957)^[16]
• The Earl of Lucan (1860–1949)^[16]
• Sir Albert Clauson (1870–1946)^[16]
• The Lord Porter (1877–1956)^[17]
• James Stratford (1869–1952)^[18]
• Sir Donald Somervell (1889–1960)^[19]
• The Viscount Finlay (1875–1945)^[20]
• Sir Fairfax Luxmoore (1876–1944)^[20]
• Sir Rayner Goddard (1877–1971)^[20]
• Sir Herbert du Parcq (1880–1949)^[20]

1939[]

• The Viscount Chilston (1876–1947)^[21]
• Rab Butler (1902–1982)^[21]
• Harry Crookshank (1893–1961)^[21]
• Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith (1899–1977)^[21]
• The Lord Chatfield (1873–1967)^[21]
• M. R. Jayakar (1873–1959)^[21]
• Richard Casey (1890–1976)^{[citation needed]}
• Hon. James Stuart (1897–1971)^[22]
• Herwald Ramsbotham (1887–1971)^[22]
• Sir Philip Macdonell (1873–1940)^[23]
• The Marquess of Lothian (1882–1940)^[24]
• The Lord Hankey (1877–1963)^[25]
• Geoffrey Fisher (1887–1972)^[26]
• Sir Ronald Campbell (1883–1953)^[27]
• Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet (1873–1960)^[28]

1940[]

• Sir Andrew Duncan (1884–1952)
• Sir George Branson (1871–1951)^[29]
• Sir John Reith (1889–1971)^[29]
• The Lord Woolton (1883–1964)^[30]
• Ernest Bevin (1881–1951)^{[citation needed]}
• Brendan Bracken (1901–1958)
• Sir Walter Citrine (1887–1983)
• Ronald Cross (1896–1968)
• Hugh Dalton (1887–1962)
• Sir Charles Edwards (1867–1954)
• Sir Percy Harris, Bt (1876–1952)
• Sir Robert Vansittart (1881–1957)
• Peter Fraser (1884–1950)
• The Duke of Hamilton (1903–1973)
• Viscount Cranborne (1893–1972)
• John Moore-Brabazon (1884–1964)
• Oliver Lyttelton (1893–1972)
• Arthur Blaikie Purvis (1890–1941)

1941[]

• Douglas Clifton Brown (1879–1958)^[31]
• Sir Walter Womersley (1878–1961)^[31]
• Sir Arthur Salter (1881–1975)
• Frederick Leathers (1883–1965)
• John Llewellin (1893–1957)
• Vincent Massey (1887–1967)^[32]
• James Reid (1890–1975)
• Sir Miles Lampson (1880–1964)^[32]
• Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps (1889–1952)
• Raoul Dandurand (1861–1942)
• Gwilym Lloyd George (1894–1967)
• Harold Balfour (1897–1988)
• Tom Williams (1888–1967)
• Sir Sidney Abrahams (1885–1957)
• Sir Chettur Madhavan Nair (1879–1970)

1942[]

• Harold Macmillan (1894–1986)
• Sir James Grigg (1890–1964)
• The Lord Portal (1885–1949)
• John Curtin (1885–1945)
• Arthur Fadden (1894–1973)
• H. V. Evatt (1894–1965)
• Cyril Garbett (1875–1955)
• George Hall (1881–1965)

1943[]

• Richard Law (1901–1980)^[33]
• Osbert Peake (1897–1966)^[33]
• William Whiteley (1882–1955)^[33]
• The Lord Cherwell (1886–1957)
• The Lord Templemore (1880–1953)^[34]
• Geoffrey Lloyd (1902–1984)^[34]
• Joseph Westwood (1884–1948)^[34]
• Harcourt Johnstone (1895–1945)^[34]
• Sir Alan Lascelles (1887–1981)
• The Viscount Wavell (1883–1950)
• Henry Willink (1894–1973)
• Ernest Frederick Watermeyer (1880–1958)
• Ben Smith (1879–1964)

1944[]

• Ralph Assheton (1901–1984)^[35]
• Sir Archibald Clark Kerr (1882–1951)^[35]
• William Mabane (1895–1969)^[35]
• Wilfred Paling (1883–1971)^[35]
• Charles Waterhouse (1893–1975)^[35]
• Sir Gavin Simonds (1881–1971)
• James Chuter Ede (1882–1965)^[36]
• Frank Forde (1890–1983)^[36]
• Hon. Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (1880–1971)
• Sir John Beaumont (1877–1974)
• Sir Fergus Morton (1887–1973)
• Duncan Sandys (1908–1987)
• Sir Edward Grigg (1879–1955)

1945[]

• Florence Horsbrugh (1889–1969)^[37]
• Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947)^[37]
• The Lord Croft (1881–1947)^[38]
• Jack Lawson (1881–1965)^[38]
• James Milner (1889–1967)^[38]
• Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, Bt (1893–1980)^[38]
• Will Thorne (1857–1946)^[38]
• Graham White (1880–1965)^[38]
• Sir Richard Hopkins (1880–1955)
• The Earl of Rosebery (1882–1974)
• Sir David Maxwell Fyfe (1900–1967)
• Ben Chifley (1885–1951)^[39]
• Alfred Barnes (1887–1974)
• George Isaacs (1883–1979)
• John Wilmot (1893–1964)
• Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)
• Manny Shinwell (1884–1986)
• George Thomson (1893–1962)
• William Wand (1885–1977)
• The Lord Winster (1885–1961)
• Jim Griffiths (1890–1975)
• Sir Cuthbert Headlam, Bt (1876–1964)
• Malcolm McCorquodale (1901–1971)
• Lewis Silkin (1889–1972)
• George Tomlinson (1890–1952)
• Ted Williams (1890–1963)
• The Lord Ammon (1873–1960)
• The Duke of Abercorn (1869–1953)
• Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894–1948)
• Sir Frederick Tucker (1888–1975)
• Gideon Brand van Zyl (1873–1956)
• Philip Noel-Baker (1889–1982)
• Sir Alfred Townsend Bucknill (1880–1963)

1946[]

• Jack Beasley (1895–1949)^[40]
• Sir Travers Humphreys (1867–1956)^[40]
• James Lorimer Ilsley (1894–1967)^[40]
• Bill Jordan (1879–1959)^[40]
• Walter Nash (1882–1968)^[40]
• Louis St. Laurent (1882–1973)^[40]
• The Lord Uthwatt (1879–1949)
• Hon. Sir Cyril Asquith (1890–1954)
• Sir Lionel Cohen (1888–1973)
• John Strachey (1901–1963)
• Hon. Sir Alexander Cadogan (1884–1968)
• The Viscount Mersey (1872–1956)
• C. D. Howe (1886–1960)
• The Earl of Listowel (1906–1997)
• Sir Hartley Shawcross (1902–2003)
• The Lord Nathan (1889–1963)
• Frederick Bellenger (1894–1968)
• Arthur Creech Jones (1891–1964)
• Hector McNeil (1907–1955)

1947[]

• Clement Davies (1884–1962)^[41]
• James Gardiner (1883–1962)^[41]
• Glenvil Hall (1887–1962)^[41]
• Arthur Henderson (1893–1968)^[41]
• Ian Alistair Mackenzie (1890–1949)^[41]
• Charles Key (1883–1964)
• The Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900–1979)
• The Lord Inman (1892–1979)
• Lord Moncrieff (1870–1949)
• Sir Frederic Wrottesley (1880–1948)
• Sir Raymond Evershed (1899–1966)
• John MacDermott (1896–1979)
• Sir Norman Birkett (1883–1962)^[42]
• The Lord Catto (1879–1959)^[42]
• Ness Edwards (1897–1968)^[42]
• Sir Godfrey Huggins (1883–1971)^[42]
• George Mathers (1886–1965)^[42]
• Harold Wilson (1916–1995)
• Thibaudeau Rinfret (1879–1962)
• Hugh Gaitskell (1906–1963)
• John Wheatley (1908–1988)
• Arthur Woodburn (1890–1978)
• George Strauss (1901–1993)

1948[]

• George Buchanan (1890–1955)^[43]
• David Kirkwood (1872–1955)^[43]
• William McKell (1891–1985)^[43]
• Sir Malcolm Macnaghten (1869–1955)^[43]
• George Heaton Nicholls (1876–1959)^[43]
• Sir Humphrey O'Leary (1886–1953)^[43]
• The Lord Pakenham (1905–2001)
• Sir Frank Soskice (1902–1979)^[44]
• Sir John Singleton (1885–1957)
• Sir Alfred Denning (1899–1999)

1949[]

• The Lord Hailey (1872–1969)^[45]
• Hilary Marquand (1901–1972)^[45]
• Edith Summerskill (1901–1980)^[45]
• Sir David Jenkins (1899–1969)
• The Lord Radcliffe (1899–1977)
• John Dugdale (1905–1963)^[46]
• Sir Oliver Franks (1905–1992)^[46]
• The Lord Morrison (1881–1953)^[46]
• Lord Patrick (1889–1967)^[46]
• Sir Lionel Leach (1883–1960)

1950[]

• Sir Ronald Campbell (1890–1983)^[47]
• Jack Holloway (1875–1967)^[47]
• D. S. Senanayake (1883–1952)^[47]
• Patrick Gordon Walker (1907–1980)
• Maurice Webb (1904–1956)
• Richard Stokes (1897–1957)
• Sidney Holland (1893–1961)
• The Lord Henderson (1891–1984)^[48]

1951[]

• Sir Owen Dixon (1886–1972)^[49]
• The Earl of Drogheda (1884–1957)^[49]
• The Lord Macdonald of Gwaenysgor (1888–1966)^[49]
• Sir Charles Hodson (1895–1984)
• Alfred Robens (1910–1999)
• George Brown (1914–1985)
• Sir John Morris (1896–1979)
• David Grenfell (1881–1968)^[50]
• Hon. Kenneth Younger (1908–1976)^[50]
• The Lord Ogmore (1903–1976)
• The Lord Ismay (1887–1965)
• Sir Walter Monckton (1891–1965)
• Patrick Buchan-Hepburn (1901–1974)
• Selwyn Lloyd (1904–1978)
• Peter Thorneycroft (1909–1994)
• The Lord de L'Isle and Dudley (1909–1991)
• James Thomas (1903–1960)
• David Eccles (1904–1999)
• Anthony Head (1906–1983)
• Sir Thomas Dugdale, Bt (1897–1977)
• Alan Lennox-Boyd (1904–1983)
• James Latham Clyde (1898–1975)
• The Earl of Home (1903–1995)
• Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh (b. 1926)
• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921–2021)
• Sir Charles Romer (1897–1969)
• Arthur Bottomley (1907–1995)^[51]
• Douglas Jay (1907–1996)^[51]
• The Lord Shepherd (1881–1954)^[51]
• Robert Taylor (1881–1954)^[51]

1952[]

• Sir Ulick Alexander (1889–1973)^[52]
• Charles Williams (1886–1955)^[52]

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