List of Privy Counsellors (1936–1952) explained

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)
• Sir George Rich (1863–1956)
• The Duke of Norfolk (1908–1975)
• Michael Joseph Savage (1872–1940)
• The Earl De La Warr (1900–1976)
• John Colville (1894–1954)
• Euan Wallace (1892–1941)
• The Duke of Beaufort (1900–1984)
• The Duke of Sutherland (1888–1963)
• The Hon. Alec Hardinge (1894–1960)
• William Morrison (1893–1961)

George VI, 1936–1952

1937

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

1938

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

1939

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

1940

• Sir Andrew Duncan (1884–1952)
• Sir George Branson (1871–1951)
• Sir John Reith (1889–1971)
• The Lord Woolton (1883–1964)
• Ernest Bevin (1881–1951)
• 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)
• Sir Walter Womersley (1878–1961)
• Sir Arthur Salter (1881–1975)
• Frederick Leathers (1883–1965)
• John Llewellin (1893–1957)
• Vincent Massey (1887–1967)
• James Reid (1890–1975)
• Sir Miles Lampson (1880–1964)
• The 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)
• Osbert Peake (1897–1966)
• William Whiteley (1882–1955)
• The Lord Cherwell (1886–1957)
• The Lord Templemore (1880–1953)
• Geoffrey Lloyd (1902–1984)
• Joseph Westwood (1884–1948)
• Harcourt Johnstone (1895–1945)
• 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)
• Sir Archibald Clark Kerr (1882–1951)
• William Mabane (1895–1969)
• Wilfred Paling (1883–1971)
• Charles Waterhouse (1893–1975)
• Sir Gavin Simonds (1881–1971)
• James Chuter Ede (1882–1965)
• Frank Forde (1890–1983)
• The 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)
• Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947)
• The Lord Croft (1881–1947)
• Jack Lawson (1881–1965)
• James Milner (1889–1967)
• Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, Bt (1893–1980)
• Will Thorne (1857–1946)
• Graham White (1880–1965)
• Sir Richard Hopkins (1880–1955)
• The Earl of Rosebery (1882–1974)
• Sir David Maxwell Fyfe (1900–1967)
• Ben Chifley (1885–1951)
• 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 James 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)
• Sir Travers Humphreys (1867–1956)
• James Lorimer Ilsley (1894–1967)
• Bill Jordan (1879–1959)
• Walter Nash (1882–1968)
• Louis St. Laurent (1882–1973)
• The Lord Uthwatt (1879–1949)
• The Hon. Sir Cyril Asquith (1890–1954)
• Sir Lionel Cohen (1888–1973)
• John Strachey (1901–1963)
• The 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)
• James Gardiner (1883–1962)
• Glenvil Hall (1887–1962)
• Arthur Henderson (1893–1968)
• Ian Alistair Mackenzie (1890–1949)
• 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)
• The Lord Catto (1879–1959)
• Ness Edwards (1897–1968)
• Sir Godfrey Huggins (1883–1971)
• George Mathers (1886–1965)
• 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)
• David Kirkwood (1872–1955)
• William McKell (1891–1985)
• Sir Malcolm Macnaghten (1869–1955)
• George Heaton Nicholls (1876–1959)
• Sir Humphrey O'Leary (1886–1953)
• The Lord Pakenham (1905–2001)
• Sir Frank Soskice (1902–1979)
• Sir John Singleton (1885–1957)
• Sir Alfred Denning (1899–1999)

1949

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

1950

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

1951

• Sir Owen Dixon (1886–1972)
• The Earl of Drogheda (1884–1957)
• The Lord Macdonald of Gwaenysgor (1888–1966)
• Sir Charles Hodson (1895–1984)
• Alfred Robens (1910–1999)
• George Brown (1914–1985)
• Sir John Morris (1896–1979)
• David Grenfell (1881–1968)
• The Hon. Kenneth Younger (1908–1976)
• 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)
• Antony 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 (1926–2022)
• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921–2021)
• Sir Charles Romer (1897–1969)
• Arthur Bottomley (1907–1995)
• Douglas Jay (1907–1996)
• The Lord Shepherd (1881–1954)
• Robert Taylor (1881–1954)

1952

• Sir Ulick Alexander (1889–1973)
• Charles Williams (1886–1955)