# 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

* 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)