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, 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 Horsburgh (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)