List of Privy Counsellors (1837–1901)

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1837

• The Earl of Ilchester
• The Earl of Surrey

  1838

• Stephen Lushington

  1839

• Viscount Ebrington
• Sir George Grey, Bt
• The Earl of Uxbridge
• Charles Shaw-Lefevre
• Sir Charles Metcalfe, Bt
• Francis Baring
• Richard Lalor Sheil
• Thomas Babington Macaulay

  1840

• The Earl of Clarendon
• The Lord Kinnaird
• Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

  1841

• Sir Joseph Littledale
• Lord Marcus Hill
• The Lord Campbell
• Hon. Fox Maule
• Hon. Edward Stanley
• Robert Vernon Smith
• The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
• The Earl of Liverpool
• Lord Eliot
• Lord Ernest Bruce
• The Earl of Lincoln
• William Ewart Gladstone
• The Marquess of Exeter
• The Marquess of Lothian
• The Earl De La Warr
• The Earl of Rosslyn
• The Lord Forester
• Hon. George Dawson-Damer
• John Iltyd Nicholl
• Earl Jermyn

  1842

• The Earl of Beverley
• Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce
• Sir James Wigram
• The Duke of Buccleuch

  1843

• Sir Edward Ryan
• Thomas Pemberton Leigh
• The Earl of Dalhousie
• Richard Pakenham

  1844

• Sir Frederick Pollock
• John Hope
• Sir Thomas Fremantle, Bt
• Sir Henry Pottinger, Bt

  1845

• Sidney Herbert
• Sir George Clerk, Bt
• Hon. Bingham Baring
• Henry Bulwer

  1846

• Hon. James Stuart-Wortley
• The Marquess of Abercorn
• The Viscount Canning
• The Duke of Bedford
• Charles Wood
• The Earl Spencer
• Lord Edward Fitzalan-Howard
• Thomas Milner Gibson
• The Earl Granville
• Sir Thomas Wilde
• Edward Strutt

  1847

• Sir George Arthur, Bt
• Hon. William Lascelles
• Sir William Somerville, Bt
• James Stephen
• Richard More O'Ferrall

  1848

• Thomas Musgrave
• William Goodenough Hayter
• John Bird Sumner
• The Earl of Bessborough
• Samuel March Phillipps
• The Marquess of Breadalbane

  1849

• Sir Thomas Wyse
• Sir David Dundas
• Matthew Talbot Baines

  1850

• The Marquess of Westminster
• Henry Tufnell
• Sir John Jervis
• Sir Robert Rolfe

  1851

• Sir John Romilly
• George James Turner
• Andrew Rutherfurd
• The Earl of Mulgrave
• Laurence Sulivan
• Lord Seymour

  1852

• Sir John Patteson
• The Lord Cowley
• The Duke of Northumberland
• Viscount Hinchingbrooke
• The Earl of Eglinton
• The Earl of Hardwicke
• The Earl of Malmesbury
• Lord John Manners
• The Lord de Ros
• The Lord Colchester
• Hon. George Weld-Forester
• Sir John Pakington, Bt
• Spencer Horatio Walpole
• Benjamin Disraeli
• Joseph Warner Henley
• Robert Adam Christopher
• William Beresford
• Lord Claud Hamilton
• George Bankes
• Viscount Newport
• Sir John Trollope, Bt
• Sir John Dodson
• Lord Naas
• The Lord Raglan
• Sir John Young, Bt
• Sir William Molesworth, Bt
• Edward Cardwell

  1853

• The Viscount Sydney
• The Duke of Argyll
• The Duke of Wellington
• Viscount Drumlanrig
• Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers
• Duncan McNeill
• John Parker

  1854

• Henry Unwin Addington
• Sir Robert Inglis, Bt
• Sir Benjamin Hall, Bt

  1855

• Hon. Henry FitzRoy
• Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bt
• Edward Horsman
• Hon. Edward Pleydell-Bouverie
• The Earl of Harrowby
• Sir William Henry Maule
• Hon. William Cowper
• Sir Maurice Berkeley
• Robert Lowe
• William Monsell
• Sir George Hamilton Seymour

  1856

• Sir Lawrence Peel
• Prince George, Duke of Cambridge
• Archibald Campbell Tait

  1857

• Sir Alexander Cockburn, Bt
• Viscount Castlerosse
• The Earl of Elgin
• Sir Evelyn Denison
• Sir John McNeill
• Frederick Peel
• Henry Arthur Herbert
• Sir Edmund Head, Bt

  1858

• Sir Cresswell Cresswell
• The Duke of Beaufort
• Lord Stanley
• The Lord Chelmsford
• The Earl Talbot
• Thomas H. Sotheron-Estcourt
• Charles Adderley
• Jonathan Peel
• The Earl of Donoughmore
• John Mowbray
• Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Bt
• Sir John Taylor Coleridge

  1859

• John Inglis
• The Earl of March
• Lord Lovaine
• Sir John Lawrence
• The Viscount Gough
• The Marquess of Ailesbury
• Sir William Jolliffe, Bt
• James Wilson
• Thomas Emerson Headlam
• The Earl Spencer
• The Earl of Ducie
• Viscount Bury
• Lord Proby
• Sir William Erle
• Sir James Colvile

  1860

• William Hutt
• Charles Thomas Longley
• The Lord Bloomfield

  1861

• The Lord Napier
• Sir Richard Bethell
• Sir Robert Peel, Bt

  1863

• William Thomson
• Sir Sir Andrew Buchanan, Bt
• The Earl de Grey and Ripon
• Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
• Sir William Gibson-Craig, Bt

  1864

• Chichester Fortescue
• Sir James Wilde
• Henry Bruce
• The Lord Wodehouse

  1865

• William Nathaniel Massey
• The Lord Lyons
• Sir Edward Vaughan Williams
• George Goschen

  1866

• The Marquess of Hartington
• The Earl of Cork
• Lord Clarence Paget
• Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
• Lord Otho FitzGerald
• Edmund Hammond
• Russell Gurney
• Horatio Waddington
• The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
• The Earl of Carnarvon
• Viscount Cranborne
• Sir Stafford Northcote, Bt
• Gathorne Hardy
• Henry Brand
• The Duke of Marlborough
• The Earl of Devon
• The Earl of Tankerville
• The Earl Cadogan
• Lord Burghley
• Viscount Royston
• The Lord Colville of Culross
• Stephen Cave
• Henry Baillie
• Sir Fitzroy Kelly
• Sir Hugh Cairns
• Sir Richard Kindersley
• Sir Henry Knight Storks
• Sir William Bovill
• William Vesey-FitzGerald

  1867

• Lord Robert Montagu
• Hon. Percy Egerton Herbert
• John Wilson-Patten
• Sir John Rolt
• Sir Robert Phillimore
• Hon. Henry Elliot
• George Patton
• Sir Francis Head, Bt

  1868

• George Ward Hunt
• Sir William Wood
• Sir Charles Jasper Selwyn
• Thomas Edward Taylor
• Lord Augustus Loftus
• Sir Joseph Napier, Bt
• Sir James Fergusson, Bt
• John Bright
• Hugh Childers
• Austen Henry Layard
• William Edward Forster
• Sir Colman O'Loghlen, Bt
• The Lord Dufferin and Clandeboye

  1869

• The Lord de Tabley
• Sir George Markham Giffard
• James Stansfeld
• The Duke of St Albans
• The Lord Lyttelton
• John Jackson
• The Viscount Monck
• The Lord Northbrook
• George Alexander Hamilton
• James Moncreiff
• Sir Alexander Spearman, Bt
• Acton Smee Ayrton

  1870

• James Anthony Lawson
• Sir William Milbourne James
• Sir Barnes Peacock
• Sir William Heathcote, Bt
• Sir George Mellish

  1871

• John Robert Davison
• Sir John McPherson Macleod
• Sir John Stuart
• Prince Arthur
• The Earl Cowper
• Sir Frederick Rogers, Bt
• Mountague Bernard
• Sir Edward Thornton
• Sir James Shaw Willes
• Sir Montague Edward Smith
• Sir Edward Lugard
• Sir Robert Collier

  1872

• Sir James Hogg, Bt
• Lord Odo Russell
• Lord Richard Grosvenor
• The Lord Poltimore
• Sir William Thomas Knollys
• John George Dodson
• George Young
• Sir Roundell Palmer
• Peter Erle
• Sir James Hannen

  1873

• Sir John Barnard Byles
• William Edward Baxter
• Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen
• The Lord Wolverton
• Sir Henry Bartle Frere, Bt
• William Patrick Adam
• Sir George Jessel
• Sir John Coleridge
• Lyon Playfair

  1874

• The Lord Monson
• Sir Samuel Martin
• The Earl of Ilchester
• R. A. Cross
• The Marquess of Hertford
• Earl Percy
• The Earl Beauchamp
• Lord Henry Somerset
• The Viscount Barrington
• Viscount Sandon
• The Lord Skelmersdale
• Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt
• Sir John Dalrymple-Hay, Bt
• George Sclater-Booth
• Edward Gordon
• Hon. Gerard Noel
• Lord Henry Lennox
• John Hubbard
• Prince Leopold

  1875

• The Earl of Shrewsbury
• Sir Henry Singer Keating
• The Marquess of Lorne
• Hon. Sir Charles Murray
• Sir Richard Baggallay
• Sir Richard Couch
• George Cavendish-Bentinck

  1876

• Lord Henry Thynne
• Sir John Burgess Karslake
• Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget
• Colin Blackburn
• Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery
• Sir George Bramwell
• Sir William Brett
• Sir Richard Amphlett

  1877

• Sir Henry Cotton
• The Earl of Coventry
• William Henry Smith
• Hon. Alfred Thesiger
• Sir Thomas Myddelton Biddulph

  1878

• James Lowther
• The Duke of Devonshire
• William Watson
• Hon. Frederick Stanley
• Lord George Hamilton
• John Arthur Roebuck

  1879

• The Earl of Yarmouth
• The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
• Sir Robert Lush
• Sir John Mellor
• Sir John A. Macdonald

  1880

• The Lord Aveland
• Henry Cecil Raikes
• Hon. David Plunket
• George Cubitt
• Hon. Robert Bourke
• Sir William Hart Dyke, Bt
• Sir Henry Ponsonby
• Alexander Beresford Hope
• The Duke of Westminster
• Sir William Vernon Harcourt
• The Earl of Breadalbane
• The Earl Fife
• Lord Charles Brudenell-Bruce
• The Lord Kensington
• Joseph Chamberlain
• A. J. Mundella
• Henry Fawcett
• George Osborne Morgan
• M. E. Grant Duff
• George Shaw-Lefevre

  1881

• The Marquess of Huntly
• Sir Arthur Hobhouse
• Sir Richard Malins
• The Lord Carrington
• The Earl of Rosebery
• Sir Nathaniel Lindley

  1882

• Sir John Holker
• John FitzGerald
• Sir Charles Bowen
• George Trevelyan
• Sir Charles Dilke, Bt

  1883

• Edward White Benson
• Sir Edward Fry
• Sir Hercules Robinson
• Sir Louis Mallet
• Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bt
• John Balfour
• Sir John Lumley

  1884

• Arthur Peel
• Sir Erskine May
• Sir Astley Cooper Key
• Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  1885

• Sir Robert Morier
• Sir Edward Malet, Bt
• Frederick Temple
• Sir John Lambert
• Sir Henry James
• Lord Randolph Churchill
• Hon. Edward Stanhope
• Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, Bt
• Sir Henry Drummond Wolff
• Sir Hardinge Giffard
• Henry Chaplin
• Arthur Balfour
• The Lord Ashbourne
• The Marquess of Waterford
• The Earl Cadogan
• Lord Arthur Hill
• Viscount Folkestone
• Viscount Lewisham
• Sir Arthur Otway, Bt
• William Thackeray Marriott
• Sir Massey Lopes, Bt
• Sir Harry Verney, Bt
• Sir Francis Sandford
• John Macdonald
• Sir Henry Holland, Bt
• Sir Henry Lopes
• Stephen Woulfe Flanagan

  1886

• The Marquess of Lothian
• Sir Charles Lennox Wyke
• Charles Newdigate Newdegate
• The Earl of Aberdeen
• The Lord Herschell
• John Morley
• Edward Heneage
• The Lord Sudeley
• Hon. Edward Marjoribanks
• The Earl of Elgin
• The Earl of Morley
• Viscount Kilcoursie
• The Lord Suffield
• John Tomlinson Hibbert
• John William Mellor
• The Earl of Dalhousie
• The Lord Thurlow
• John Sidney North
• Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, Bt
• Henry Fowler
• Sir John Rose, Bt
• Sir John Drummond-Hay
• The Marquess of Londonderry
• Henry Matthews
• Charles Ritchie
• The Duke of Portland
• The Earl of Kintore
• The Earl of Rosslyn
• Sir James Bacon
• Sir George Bowen

  1887

• The Lord Macnaghten
• The Earl Brownlow
• Sir John Clayton Cowell
• Sir William Robert Grove
• William Bede Dalley

  1888

• Sir Richard Garth
• The Earl of Lytton
• Sir William Arthur White
• Sir Clare Ford
• James Robertson

  1889

• The Earl of Limerick
• Leonard Courtney
• Baron Henry de Worms
• The Earl of Zetland
• Sir James Caird
• The Lord Morris

  1890

• Sir John Lubbock, Bt
• Sir John Eldon Gorst
• Sir William Field
• The Earl of Jersey
• William Jackson
• Alexander Shand
• The Earl of Yarborough
• Sir Edward Ebenezer Kay

  1891

• William Connor Magee
• The Lord Windsor
• Sir Charles Parker Butt
• Hon. Evelyn Ashley
• Aretas Akers-Douglas
• William Lidderdale
• William Dalrymple Maclagan
• Lord Walter Lennox
• Sir Charles Pearson
• Lord Burghley

  1892

• Sir Walter Barttelot, Bt
• Arthur Forwood
• The Lord Balfour of Burleigh
• Sir Francis Jeune
• Sir Archibald Levin Smith
• Sir James Parker Deane
• The Lord Houghton
• Arnold Morley
• H. H. Asquith
• Arthur Dyke Acland
• James Bryce
• Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bt
• Jesse Collings
• Thomas Henry Huxley
• Sir Robert Duff
• Hon. Charles Spencer
• Herbert Gardner
• Charles Seale-Hayne
• The Lord Vernon
• The Lord Ribblesdale
• Christopher Palles
• Alexander Staveley Hill

  1893

• George Denman
• Sir Alfred Stephen
• The Lord Vivian
• Sir Edmund Monson
• Sir Horace Davey

  1894

• Sir Philip Currie
• Sir Algernon West
• Herbert Gladstone
• The Earl of Chesterfield
• Sir Charles Russell
• Sir George Grey
• Sir Frank Lascelles
• Sir Arthur Hayter
• Jacob Bright
• Prince George, Duke of York
• Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
• Prince Henry of Battenberg
• Sir John Rigby
• Sir Julian Pauncefote
• Sir John Sparrow David Thompson

  1895

• Cecil Rhodes
• William Gully
• The Lord Leigh
• Sir Henry Loch
• Hon. George Curzon
• Robert William Hanbury
• The Marquess of Lansdowne
• Sir Bernard Samuelson, Bt
• Sir Ralph Wood Thompson
• Walter Long
• The Duke of Norfolk
• The Earl of Pembroke
• The Earl of Hopetoun
• The Lord Belper
• Sir Fleetwood Isham Edwards
• Sir Julian Goldsmid, Bt
• Sir Richard Paget, Bt
• Francis Foljambe

  1896

• Sir Richard Temple, Bt
• Charles Stuart-Wortley
• Sir Nicholas Roderick O'Conor
• Max Müller
• Andrew Murray
• Sir Horace Rumbold, Bt

  1897

• Sir Joseph William Chitty
• Hon. St John Brodrick
• Sir John Kennaway, Bt
• The Earl Waldegrave
• Mandell Creighton
• Sir Samuel Way
• Sir John de Villiers
• Sir Samuel Henry Strong
• Sir Wilfrid Laurier
• George Reid
• Sir George Turner
• Richard Seddon
• Sir Hugh Nelson
• Sir John Gordon Sprigg
• Charles Kingston
• Sir William Whiteway
• Sir John Forrest
• Sir Edward Braddon
• Harry Escombe
• William Edward Hartpole Lecky
• John Gilbert Talbot
• John Lloyd Wharton
• Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bt
• Richard Collins
• Sir Roland Vaughan Williams

  1898

• Sir George Goldie
• James Alexander Campbell
• James Lowther
• Edmond Wodehouse
• Sir Charles Scott

  1899

• The Duke of Marlborough
• Sir Charles Hall
• Edward James Saunderson
• William Kenrick
• The Lord Brampton
• Sir William Walrond, Bt
• Sir Robert Romer

  1900

• The Lord Rowton
• William Wither Bramston Beach
• Sir Ford North
• Sir Richard Webster, Bt
• Sir Frederick Milner, Bt
• The Viscount Cromer
• The Earl of Clarendon
• The Earl of Selborne
• Gerald Balfour
• Joseph Powell-Williams
• Gerald FitzGibbon
• Sir James Stirling
• William Ellison-Macartney