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Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus

In 1573 he was made a Privy Councillor and Sheriff of Berwickshire; in 1574 Lieutenant-General in Scotland; in 1577 Warden of the West Marches and Steward of Fife; and in 1578 Lieutenant-General of the realm.

Arthur Luxmoore

A well-respected and hard working judge, Luxmoore was promoted to the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in October 1938 and made a Privy Councillor.

Canadian name

Postnominals granted under the Canadian honour system include PC (Privy Councillor, granted to federal cabinet ministers and some other senior politicians including leaders of opposition parties); CM (Member of the Order of Canada); OC (Officer of the Order of Canada); and CC (Companion of the Order of Canada, the highest rank of that order).

Charles Kingston

In 1897 he travelled to London for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, where he was made a Privy Councillor and awarded an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws degree by Oxford University.

Edward Nicholas

When Charles returned to London, Nicholas was knighted, and appointed a privy councillor and a Secretary of State, in which capacity he attended the king while the court was at Oxford, and carried out the business of the Treaty of Uxbridge.

Erik Juel

Erik Juel, often referred to as Erik Juel to Hundsbæk and Alsted (1591 – 13 February 1657), was a Danish courtier, seignory and Privy Councillor, the father of Admiral Niels Juel and of the politician and diplomat Jens Juel.

John Wemyss, 1st Earl of Wemyss

He was Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, a Privy Councillor and one of the Committee of the Estates.

Stephan Fox

Stephan is also involved in many charity projects, especially in youth development through the Muaythai Against Drugs (MAD) program established by Privy Councillor to HM the King of Thailand, General Pichitr Kullavanijaya.

Wendelstein Rack Railway

The construction of the Wendelstein Railway was the vision of privy councillor (Geheimer Kommerzienrat), Dr. h.c. Otto von Steinbeis, an industrialist, who was involved in forestry and agriculture in the alpine foreland as well as logging in Bosnia on a grand scale and built, in parallel with that, an extensive light railway (Kleinbahn) network.

William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry

He was appointed a Scottish Privy Councillor in 1667, Lord Justice General from 1680 to 1682, and Lord High Treasurer of Scotland from 1682 to 1686.

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.


see also

Bassewitz

Count Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz (1680–1749), on Prebberede manor etc., Imperial Privy Councillor of the Russian Empire and of the Holy Roman Empire, President of the Privy Council and Chief Court Marshall of the Duchy of Holstein-Gottorp, President of the Privy Council of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, recipient of the Order of St. Andrew

Bucknill

Sir Thomas Townsend Bucknill MP QC was an English, Member of Parliament and Privy Councillor (and son of John Charles Bucknill).

Catherine Rostopchin

In July 1819 in Paris, she was married to Dmitry V. Naryshkin (1792–1831), and the actual Privy Councillor, Governor Tauride.

Dahlen Castle

After 1630 the Elector then sold the estate to his Privy Councillor David von Döring who had recently been ennobled and owned many estates in the area (Seelingstädt, Großsteinberg, Bohlen, Mühl, Börln).

Harald Turner

Harald Turner (8 October 1891 in Leun – 9 March 1947 in Belgrade) was an SS commander and Staatsrat (privy councillor) in the German military administration of the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia in the partitioned Kingdom of Yugoslavia during World War II.

Henry Bedingfeld

After this event, "Bedingfeld proclaimed the queen at Norwich, he was afterwards rewarded for his loyalty with an annual pension of 100 pounds out of the forfeited estates of Sir Thomas Wyatt; made a Privy Councillor by Mary I and Knight Marshal of her army, and, subsequently Lieutenant of the Tower of London."

Johann Nepomuk von Triva

In 1779 he married Floriana von Velhorn, a daughter of the Privy Councillor in Amberg Johann Wolfgang Alois von Velhorn (1734–1789) and his wife Sybilla née von Loefen zu Diepoltsdorf.

John Fitzgibbon

John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare (1792–1851), Privy Councillor and Governor of Bombay

Nikolai Velyaminov

Velyaminov was appointed a Privy Councillor in 1905 and awarded the Order of St. Anne, 1st degree, in 1907.