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)

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)
 * 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 (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)