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20 unusual facts about Privy Council of the United Kingdom


A Royal Scandal

The union was considered invalid because it had not been approved by the king and the Privy Council.

Alexander Hardinge, 2nd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst

Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, 2nd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst GCB GCVO MC PC (17 May 1894–29 May 1960) was Private Secretary to the Sovereign during the Abdication Crisis of Edward VIII and during most of the Second World War.

Andrew Weir, 1st Baron Inverforth

Andrew Weir, 1st Baron Inverforth PC (24 April 1865–17 September 1955) created and headed the firm of Andrew Weir and Co. shipowners of Glasgow.

Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen

He had been admitted to the Privy Council in 1913 and on 1 November 1919 was raised to the peerage as Baron Swinfen, of Chertsey in the County of Surrey.

Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges

He was invested a Privy Counsellor in 1953 and in 1957 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Bridges, of Headley in the County of Surrey and of Saint Nicholas at Wade in the County of Kent.

G. A. H. Branson

The Right Hon. Sir George Arthur Harwin Branson PC (11 July 1871 – 23 April 1951), known professionally as G.

George Courthope, 1st Baron Courthope

George Loyd Courthope, 1st Baron Courthope PC, MC (12 June 1877 – 2 September 1955), known as Sir George Courthope, Bt, from 1925 to 1945, was a British Conservative Party politician.

Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie

Alexander Patrick Greysteil Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie PC, FRSL (born 26 November 1939), usually known as Grey Gowrie, is a Scottish hereditary peer.

John Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham

John George Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham KG, GCVO, PC (19 June 1855 – 18 September 1928), known as Viscount Lambton until 1879, was a British peer.

Northern Ireland Act 1974

The Act authorised the dissolution of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and transferred its legislative powers to the Queen in Council.

Oliver Poole, 1st Baron Poole

Oliver Brian Sanderson Poole, 1st Baron Poole CBE, TD, PC (11 August 1911-28 January 1993), was a British Conservative politician, soldier and businessman.

Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham

Richard Gordon Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham CBE, PC (27 May 1936 – 4 May 2008) was a British Liberal Democrat politician.

Shadow Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher

The Lord St Aldwyn PC

The Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone PC

The Lord Carrington PC

T. P. O'Connor

He was appointed the first President of the Board of Film Censors in 1917, and was appointed to the Privy Council by the first Labour government in 1924.

Whetumarama Wereta

She was a member of that committee when, on 15 September 1995, it submitted a report that rejected in the strongest terms the government proposal to abolish the right of appeal to the Privy Council.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

In 1897, he was made a privy councillor, and among the coronation honours in 1902, he was nominated an original member of the new Order of Merit.

Wyndham Portal, 1st Viscount Portal

Wyndham Raymond Portal, 1st Viscount Portal PC GCMG DSO MVO (9 April 1885 – 6 May 1949) was a British politician.

He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1942, created Viscount Portal in 1945 and awarded the GCMG in 1949.


Baron Chesham

He served as Master of the Buckhounds from 1900 to 1901 in the Conservative administration of Lord Salisbury and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1901.

Big Twenty Township

The treaty, named for US Secretary of State Daniel Webster and United Kingdom Privy Counsellor Lord Ashburton, ended the Aroostook War and also set the US–Canada border further west.

Ceylon Medical College

On 29 December 1887 the school's LMS diploma was recognised by the General Medical Council at a meeting of the Privy Council held at Osborne House.

Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset

In the memorable crisis when Anne was at the point of death, Somerset acted with Argyll, Shrewsbury and other Whig nobles who, by insisting on their right to be present in the Privy Council, secured the Hanoverian succession to the Crown.

David Edward

Professor Sir David Alexander Ogilvy Edward, KCMG, QC, FRSE, PC (born 1934) is a Scottish lawyer and academic, and former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities.

Edward Waldegrave

He was released a year later and on Mary's accession in 1553 he was knighted, admitted to the Privy Council, granted the manors of Navestock, Essex, and Chewton, Somerset, and appointed Master of the Great Wardrobe.

Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart

He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1918, Attorney General from 10 January 1919 to 6 March 1922.

Harold Wilson bibliography

James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians of the 20th century.

Henry Jerningham

He was created a Knight of the Bath at Mary's coronation, and shortly thereafter was sworn to the Privy Council.

Herbert Lewis

Lewis was made a Privy Counsellor in 1912, a freeman of the towns of Flint and Aberystwyth, Constable of Flint Castle, honorary LL.D of the University of Wales in 1918.

Hugh Molson, Baron Molson

(Arthur) Hugh (Elsdale) Molson, Baron Molson PC (29 June 1903 – 13 October 1991) was a British Conservative politician and member of the Molson family of Montreal.

James Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury

James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury GCB, PC (25 March 1807 – 17 May 1889), styled Viscount FitzHarris from 1820 to 1841, was a British statesman of the Victorian era.

John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll

In July 1714, during Queen Anne's last illness, the unexpected presence of Argyll and the Duke of Somerset at the Privy Council prevented Bolingbroke from taking full power on the fall of Oxford, and thus perhaps secured the Hanoverian succession.

John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland

General John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland GCB, GCH, PC (2 February 1784 – 16 October 1859), styled Lord Burghersh until 1841, was a British soldier, politician, diplomat and musician.

John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare

John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare KP GCH PC (10 July 1792 – 18 August 1851) was the son of John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare and his wife, Anne.

John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham

John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, PC, DL (born 22 June 1932) is a businessman and British Conservative Party politician and the current Chancellor of Brunel University.

Judge Fulton

He joined Edward Mortimer of Pictou and William Cottnam Tonge of Halifax to form a "country party" that opposed powerful Halifax merchants allied with then Lieutenant Governor, Sir John Wentworth and the Privy Council, who favoured development of Halifax town at the expense of rural areas and were known at the time as the "court party".

Lawtel

Cases are reported from the Supreme Court, Privy Council, Court of Appeal (Civil), Court of Appeal (Criminal), High Court, selected tribunals, Crown Court, and the County Court.

Lords Commissioners

The Lords Commissioners are Privy Councillors appointed by the Monarch of the United Kingdom to exercise, on his or her behalf, certain functions relating to Parliament which would otherwise require the monarch's attendance at the Palace of Westminster.

Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe

Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe PC, DL (1901-1984) was an English aristocrat and politician.

Richard Cecil Cook

Always known by his second given name, Cecil Cook was born in Marrickville, New South Wales, one of nine children of Sir Joseph Cook PC, GCMG, Prime Minister of Australia (1913-1914) and Dame Mary Cook.

Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere

Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere GCB, GCH, KSI, PC (14 November 1773 – 21 February 1865), was a British military leader, diplomat and politician.

Walcot, Lincolnshire

Lord of the manor and principal landowner was Lord Aveland PC, DL, JP.

Walter Patterson

On 30 May 1769, the British Privy Council declared St. John's Island a colony with its own government, separating it from Nova Scotia.

William Arthur White

Sir William Arthur White PC, GCB, GCMG (13 February 1824 – 28 December 1891) was a British diplomat, born in Puławy, in Poland.

William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll

William George Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll KT, GCH, PC (21 February 1801 – 19 April 1846), styled Lord Hay between 1815 and 1819, was a Scottish peer and politician.