List of Privy Counsellors (1714–1820)

This is a List of Privy Counsellors of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom appointed between the accession of King George I in 1714 and the death of King George III in 1820.

George I, 1714–1727

1714

• James Lowther (1673–1755)
• George Augustus, Prince of Wales (1683–1760)
• Sir William Dawes, Bt (1671–1724)
• James Stanhope (1673–1721)
• Robert Walpole (1676–1745)
• Hugh Boscawen (1680–1734)
• The Earl of Stair (1673–1747)
• Paul Methuen (1672–1757)
• The Earl of Dorset (1688–1765)
• The Earl of Uxbridge (1663–1743)
• The Lord Carleton (1669–1725)

1715

• Sir Peter King (1670–1734)
• The Duke of Grafton (1683–1757)
• The Earl of Galway (1648–1720)
• The Earl of Derby (1664–1736)
• The Earl of Lincoln (1684–1728)

1716

• William Wake (1657–1737)
• The Earl of Tankerville (1674–1722)
• Sir Richard Temple, Bt (1675–1749)
• The Hon. Spencer Compton (1674–1743)
• William Pulteney (1684–1764) (expelled 1731; re-admitted 1742)
• John Aislabie (1670–1742)

1717

• John Smith (1655–1723)
• The Lord Torrington (1650–1719)
• The Lord Cadogan (1670–1726)
• The Duke of Newcastle (1693–1768)
• The Earl of Westmorland (1680–1736)
• The Earl of Berkeley (1680–1736)
• Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
• Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662–1738)
• The Earl of Halifax (1685–1739)

1718

• The Earl of Holderness (1681–1722)
• James Craggs the Younger (1686–1721)
• Richard Hampden (1674–1728)
• Sir Nicholas Lechmere (1675–1727)
• Sir John Pratt (1657–1725)

1719

• Charles Wills (1666–1741)

1720

• The Earl of Coventry (1676–1751)

1721

• The Earl of Sutherland (1661–1733)
• Sir George Byng, Bt (1663–1733)
• The Lord Carteret (1690–1763)
• The Duke of Chandos (1674–1744)
• The Earl of Portmore (1656–1730)
• The Lord Cornwallis (1675–1722)

1722

• Sir Robert Sutton (1671–1746)

1723

• The Earl of Godolphin (1678–1766)
• Edmund Gibson (1669–1748)
• The Earl of Findlater (1663–1730)

1724

• The Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (1686–1742)
• Lancelot Blackburne (1658–1743)

1725

• Sir Robert Raymond (1673–1733)
• The Duke of Bolton (1685–1754)
• Lord Finch (1689–1769)
• Sir Robert Eyre (1666–1735)
• The Hon. Henry Pelham (1694–1754)

1726

• The Lord Trevor (1658–1730)
• The Duke of Queensberry (1698–1778)
• The Earl of Marchmont (1675–1740)
• The Viscount Lonsdale (1694–1751)

1727

• The Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773)
• William Stanhope (c. 1683–1756)

George II, 1727–1760

1727

• The Earl of Scarbrough (1686–1739)
• The Earl of Grantham (1673–1754)
• The Earl of Sussex (1690–1731)

1728

• Arthur Onslow (1691–1768)
• Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707–1751)

1729

• The Earl of Burlington (1694–1753)

1730

• The Lord Hervey (1696–1743)
• The Lord Bingley (c. 1676–1731)
• The Hon. Sir Conyers Darcy (c. 1685–1758)
• Sir William Strickland, Bt (c. 1686–1735)
• Horatio Walpole (1678–1757)

1731

• The Duke of Devonshire (1698–1755)
• The Lord De La Warr (1693–1766)
• The Earl of Leicester (1680–1737)

1732

• Sir Charles Wager (1666–1743)
• The Hon. Pattee Byng (1699–1747)

1733

• The Duke of Atholl (1690–1764)
• The Earl of Selkirk (1663–1739)
• Sir Philip Yorke (1690–1764)
• Charles Talbot (1685–1737)

1734

• The Duke of Richmond (1701–1750)
• The Earl of Pembroke (1693–1749)
• The Earl of Essex (1697–1743)
• The Earl Waldegrave (1684–1741)
• Stephen Poyntz (1685–1750)

1735

• The Duke of Montagu (1690–1749)
• Sir Thomas Reeve (1673–1737)
• The Earl FitzWalter (1672–1756)
• Sir William Yonge, Bt (c.1693–1755)

1736

• John Potter (c.1674–1747)
• Sir John Willes (1685–1761)
• The Earl of Cholmondeley (1703–1770)

1737

• The Lord Monson (1693–1748)
• Sir William Lee (1688–1754)

1738

• The Earl of Abercorn (1686–1744)
• John Verney (1699–1741)

1739

• Sir John Norris (c.1670–1749)

1740

• Lord Sidney Beauclerk (1703–1744)
• The Lord Cornwallis (1700–1762)

1741

• Thomas Winnington (1696–1746)
• William Fortescue (1687–1749)

1742

• The Marquess of Tweeddale (1695–1762)
• Samuel Sandys (1695–1770)
• The Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (1714–1778)
• William Pulteney (1684–1764)
• The Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765)
• George Wade (1673–1748)
• Thomas Clutterbuck (1697–1742)
• The Lord Gower (1694–1754)
• The Lord Bathurst (1684–1775)
• The Hon. William Finch (1691–1766)

1743

• Sir John Rushout, Bt (1685–1775)
• Thomas Herring (1693–1757)

1744

• The Lord Hobart (1693–1756)
• George Dodington (1691–1762)
• The Lord Edgcumbe (1680–1758)
• The Duke of Bedford (1710–1771)

1745

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1746

• The Earl of Jersey (d. 1769)
• William Pitt the Elder (1708–1778)
• Henry Fox (1705–1774)

1747

• Matthew Hutton (1693–1758)

1748

• The Earl of Halifax (1716–1771)
• Thomas Sherlock (1678–1761)
• The Earl of Sandwich (1718–1792)
• Sir John Ligonier (1680–1770)

1749

• Sir John Strange (1696–1754)
• The Duke of Marlborough (1706–1758)
• The Hon. Henry Legge (1708–1764)

1750

• The Earl of Hyndford (1701–1767)
• The Lord Anson (1697–1762)
• Sir Thomas Robinson (1695–1770)

1751

• The Earl Harcourt (1714–1777)
• The Earl of Holderness (1718–1778)
• Marquess of Hartington (1720–1764)
• The Earl of Albemarle (1702–1754)

1752

• The Lord Berkeley of Stratton (1697–1773)
• Sir George Lee (c.1700–1758)
• The Earl Waldegrave (1715–1763)

1754

• The Earl of Hillsborough (1718–1793)
• George Grenville (1712–1770)
• Sir Dudley Ryder (1691–1756)
• Sir Thomas Clarke (1703–1764)
• Sir George Lyttelton, Bt (1709–1773)

1755

• The Duke of Bolton (1691–1759)
• The Earl of Egmont (1711–1770)
• The Earl of Rochford (1717–1781)
• The Viscount Barrington (1717–1793)
• The Earl Gower (1721–1806)

1756

• Lord Hobart (1723–1793)
• The Lord Raymond (1717–1756)
• The Earl Temple (1711–1779)
• The Viscount Bateman (1721–1802)
• The Lord Mansfield (1705–1793)
• The Hon. Richard Edgcumbe (1716–1761)
• The Viscount Falmouth (1707–1782)

1757

• The Duke of Leeds (1713–1789)
• The Hon. Charles Townshend (1725–1767)
• John Gilbert (1693–1761)
• Sir Robert Henley (1708–1772)
• The Earl of Thomond (c.1713–1774)

1758

• Lord George Sackville (1716–1785) (expelled 1760; readmitted 1765)
• Viscount Dupplin (1710–1787)
• Thomas Secker (1693–1768)
• The Marquess of Winchester (c.1718–1765)

1759

• The Hon. Edward Boscawen (1711–1761)
• Robert Nugent (1709–1788)

1760

• The Earl of Denbigh (1719–1800)
• Welbore Ellis (1713–1802)

George III, 1760–1820

1760

• Prince Edward, Duke of York (1739–1767)
• The Earl of Bute (1713–1792)
• The Earl of Huntingdon (1728–1789)
• The Hon. George Townshend (1724–1807)
• Viscount Royston (1720–1790)

1761

• The Earl of Albemarle (1724–1772)
• The Earl of Shaftesbury (1711–1771)
• Sir Francis Dashwood, Bt (1708–1781)
• The Earl Talbot (1710–1782)
• James Grenville (1715–1783)
• The Marquess of Granby (1721–1770)
• The Earl of Powis (1703–1772)
• The Earl of Egremont (1710–1763)
• The Hon. James Stuart-Mackenzie (1718–1800)
• Robert Hay Drummond (1711–1776)
• Thomas Hayter (1702–1762)

1762

• The Duke of Argyll (c.1693–1770)
• Lord George Cavendish (1727–1794)
• Sir Charles Pratt (1714–1794)
• Richard Osbaldeston (1691–1764)
• The Earl of Lichfield (1718–1772)
• Sir John Cust, Bt (1718–1770)
• Gilbert Elliot (1722–1777)
• The Lord Tyrawley (1682–1773)
• The Duke of Marlborough (1739–1817)
• The Earl of Marchmont (1708–1794)
• The Earl of Northumberland (c. 1714–1786)
• Hans Stanley (1721–1780)
• Lord Strange (1716–1771)

1763

• Humphry Morice (1723–1785)
• Sir John Philipps, Bt (c. 1701–1764)
• The Earl of Shelburne (1737–1805)
• Lord Charles Spencer (1740–1820)
• James Oswald (1715–1769)
• Richard Rigby (1722–1788)
• The Earl of Ilchester (1704–1776)
• The Earl of Hertford (1718–1794)
• The Viscount Stormont (1727–1796)
• The Lord Hyde (1709–1786)

1764

• Richard Terrick (1710–1777)
• Sir Thomas Sewell (c.1710–1784)
• The Duke of Gloucester (1743–1805)

1765

• The Viscount Weymouth (1734–1796)
• Lord Frederick Campbell (1729–1816)
• The Duke of Portland (1738–1809)
• The Duke of Grafton (1735–1811)
• The Marquess of Rockingham (1730–1782)
• The Hon. Henry Seymour Conway (1721–1795)
• William Dowdeswell (1721–1775)
• The Earl of Scarbrough (1725–1782)
• The Earl of Ashburnham (1724–1812)
• The Earl of Bessborough (1704–1793)
• Viscount Villiers (1735–1805)
• The Earl of Dartmouth (1731–1801)
• The Viscount Howe (1726–1799)
• The Lord Edgcumbe (1720–1795)
• Thomas Pelham (1728–1805)
• The Duke of Richmond (1735–1806)
• The Earl Verney (1714–1791)

1766

• The Duke of Dorset (1711–1769)
• The Earl of Breadalbane (1696–1782)
• Sir John Eardley Wilmot (1709–1792)
• Sir Charles Saunders (c.1715–1775)
• Isaac Barré (1726–1802)
• The Earl of Bristol (1721–1775)
• Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (1745–1790)
• Sir John Shelley, Bt (1730–1783)
• Lord North (1732–1792)
• Sir Edward Hawke (1705–1781)
• The Duke of Bolton (1720–1794)

1767

• Thomas Townshend (1733–1800)
• George Onslow (1731–1814)

1768

• The Hon. Thomas Harley (1730–1804)
• The Lord Cathcart (1721–1776)
• The Hon. Sir Joseph Yorke (1724–1792)
• The Hon. Frederick Cornwallis (1713–1783)
• The Duke of Newcastle (1720–1794)

1769

• Sir Fletcher Norton (1716–1789)
• Sir James Gray, Bt (c. 1708–1773)

1770

• The Hon. Charles Yorke (1722–1770)
• The Duke of Somerset (1717–1792)
• The Lord Grantham (1738–1786)
• George Rice (1724–1779)
• The Earl Cornwallis (1738–1805)
• The Hon. Henry Thynne (1735–1826)

1771

• The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire (1739–1779)
• The Lord Apsley (1714–1794)
• Viscount Hinchingbrook (1744–1814)
• Sir William de Grey (1719–1781)
• The Earl of Pomfret (1722–1785)
• Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bt (1710–1781)

1772

• Sir Jeffrey Amherst (1717–1797)
• Sir Thomas Parker (1695–1784)

1773

• Charles Jenkinson (1727–1808)
• Sir William Lynch (c. 1730–1785)
• Sir John Goodricke, Bt (1708–1789)

1774

• Sir William Meredith, Bt (c. 1725–1790)
• Jeremiah Dyson (1722–1776)

1775

• The Duke of Chandos (1731–1789)
• The Lord Lyttelton (1744–1779)

1776

• The Lord Bruce of Tottenham (1729–1814)
• The Duke of Montagu (1712–1790)
• Henry Flood (1732–1791) (struck off 1781)

1777

• William Markham (1719–1807)
• The Earl of Carlisle (1748–1825)
• Robert Lowth (1710–1787)
• Charles Townshend (1728–1810)
• Sir Sidney Smythe (1705–1778)
• The Marquess of Carmarthen (1751–1799)

1778

• The Lord Thurlow (1731–1806)

1779

• The Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (1756–1779)
• Viscount Mountstuart (1744–1814)

1780

• Viscount Beauchamp (1743–1822)
• Sir Richard Worsley, Bt (1751–1805)
• Alexander Wedderburn (1733–1805)
• The Earl of Salisbury (1748–1823)
• Charles Wolfran Cornwall (1735–1789)

1782

• The Earl of Shannon (1727–1807)
• The Duke of Dorset (1745–1799)
• Lord John Cavendish (1732–1796)
• John Dunning (1731–1783)
• The Hon. Charles James Fox (1749–1806) (expelled 1798; readmitted 1806)
• Augustus Keppel (1725–1786)
• Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
• The Duke of Manchester (1737–1788)
• The Earl of Effingham (1746–1791)
• The Earl Ludlow (1730–1803)
• Sir George Yonge, Bt (1731–1812)
• Lord Ferrers of Chartley (1753-1811)
• Viscount Chewton (1751–1789)
• Lord Robert Spencer (1747–1831)
• The Hon. Sir William Howe (1729–1814)
• The Hon. William Pitt (1759–1806)
• The Earl Temple (1753–1813)
• Henry Dundas (1742–1811) (expelled 1805; readmitted 1807)
• The Earl of Tankerville (1743–1822)

1783

• The Duke of Rutland (1754–1787)
• William Eden (1745–1814)
• The Hon. Charles Francis Greville (1749–1809)
• The Earl Cholmondeley (1749–1827)
• The Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick (1748–1813)
• Frederick Montagu (1733–1800)
• John Moore (1730–1805)
• The Earl of Northington (1747–1786)
• The Earl of Derby (1752–1834)
• George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales (1762–1830)
• James Grenville (1742–1825)
• The Earl of Aylesford (1751–1812)
• The Lord Walsingham (1748–1818)
• William Grenville (1759–1834)

1784

• The Earl of Chesterfield (1755–1815)
• Lord George Lenox (1737–1805)
• Lloyd Kenyon (1732–1802)
• The Viscount Galway (1752–1810)
• The Lord Mulgrave (1744–1792)
• The Earl of Courtown (1731–1810)
• Sir James Harris (1746–1820)
• Lord Herbert (1759–1827)

1785

• Thomas Orde (1746–1807)

1786

• John Foster (1740–1828)
• John Beresford (1738–1805)
• Sir John Parnell, Bt (1744–1801)

1787

• John Hely-Hutchinson (1724–1794)
• The Hon. John Villiers (1757–1838)
• Sir John Skynner (1724–1805)
• The Duke of York (1763–1827)
• Alleyne FitzHerbert (1753–1839)
• Beilby Porteous (1731–1809)

1788

• Sir Richard Arden (1744–1804)

1789

• The Earl of Chatham (1756–1835)
• Sir Robert Murray Keith (1730–1795)
• Sir William Wynne (1729–1815)
• The Duke of Clarence (1765–1837)
• Henry Addington (1757–1844)
• The Marquess of Graham (1755–1836)
• The Earl of Westmorland (1759–1841)

1790

• The Viscount Falmouth (1758–1808)
• The Hon. Dudley Ryder (1762–1847)
• The Earl Gower (1758–1833)
• The Lord FitzGibbon (1748–1802)

1791

• Thomas Steele (1753–1823)
• Viscount Parker (1755–1842)
• Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803)

1792

• The Lord Macartney (1737–1806)
• Sir James Eyre (1734–1799)

1793

• Sir Archibald Macdonald (1747–1826)
• Robert Hobart (1760–1816)
• The Earl of Mornington (1760–1842)
• Lord Apsley (1762–1834)
• Viscount Bayham (1759–1840)
• Viscount Belgrave (1767–1845)
• Viscount Stopford (1765–1835)
• Sir Gilbert Elliot, Bt (1751–1814)

1794

• Sylvester Douglas (1743–1823)
• The Earl FitzWilliam (1748–1833)
• The Earl Spencer (1758–1834)
• William Windham (1750–1810)
• Sir Morton Eden (1752–1830)
• Viscount Milton (1746–1808)

1795

• The Hon. Thomas Pelham (1756–1826)
• Sir George Howard (1718–1796)

1796

• The Earl of Kinnoull (1751–1804)
• Sir Grey Cooper, Bt (1726–1801)
• The Duke of Roxburghe (1740–1804)

1797

• Sir Joseph Banks, Bt. (1743–1820)
• Lord Charles Somerset (1767–1831)
• The Hon. Andrew Cochrane (1767–1833)
• The Duke of Atholl (1755–1830)
• The Hon. John Trevor (1748–1824)
• Sir Charles Grey (1729–1807)

1798

• The Lord Cathcart (1755–1843)
• The Earl of Harrington (1753–1829)
• Sir William Scott (1745–1836)
• Thomas Grenville (1755–1846)
• Viscount Castlereagh (1769–1822)

1799

• Sir William Fawcett (1727–1804)
• Lord Hawkesbury (1770–1828)
• The Duke of Kent (1767–1820)
• The Duke of Cumberland (1771–1851)
• The Earl of Elgin (1766–1841)
• Sir John Scott (1751–1838)
• Isaac Corry (1753–1813)
• The Lord Lavington (1739–1807)

1800

• George Canning (1770–1827)
• William Dundas (1762–1845)
• The Lord Whitworth (1752–1825)

1801

• William Stuart (1755–1822)
• Sir John Mitford (1748–1830)
• The Earl of St Vincent (1735–1823)
• Charles Philip Yorke (1764–1834)
• The Lord Arden (1756–1840)
• The Earl of Hardwicke (1757–1834)
• Viscount Lewisham (1755–1810)
• Sir William Grant (1752–1832)
• Charles Abbot (1757–1829)
• Thomas Wallace (1768–1844)
• Charles Bragge (1754–1831)

1802

• William Wickham (1761–1840)
• George Rose (1744–1818)
• Charles Long (1760–1838)
• Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774–1850)
• The Lord Ellenborough (1750–1818)
• Sir John Warren, Bt (1753–1822)
• Sir Charles Morgan, Bt (1726–1806)
• John Smyth (1748–1811)

1803

• John Hiley Addington (1759–1818)
• George Tierney (1761–1830)
• The Hon. Thomas Maitland (1760–1824)
• Nathaniel Bond (1754–1823)

1804

• The Hon. Arthur Paget (1771–1840)
• Sir Evan Nepean, Bt (1751–1822)
• Sir James Mansfield (1733–1821)
• The Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham (1752–1826)
• Lord George Thynne (1770–1838)
• The Lord Mulgrave (1755–1831)
• William Drummond (1770–1828)
• Charles Arbuthnot (1767–1850)
• Lord John Thynne (1772–1849)
• Lord Granville Leveson-Gower (1773–1846)
• Prince Augustus, Duke of Sussex (1773–1843)

1805

• John Hookham Frere (1769–1846)
• John Sullivan (1749–1839)
• Nicholas Vansittart (1766–1851)
• Reginald Pole Carew (1753–1835)
• Charles Manners-Sutton (1755–1828)
• The Lord Barham (1726–1813)
• The Earl of Powis (1754–1839)

1806

• Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776–1834)
• The Earl of Moira (1754–1826)
• The Earl Temple (1776–1839)
• Lord Henry Petty (1780–1863)
• The Hon. Charles Grey (1764–1845)
• The Hon. Charles James Fox (1749–1806)
• Viscount Morpeth (1773–1848)
• Lord John Townshend (1757–1833)
• The Lord Erskine (1750–1823)
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)
• The Duke of Bedford (1766–1839)
• The Earl of Carnarvon (1741–1811)
• The Earl of Carysfort (1751–1828)
• Lord Ossulston (1776–1859)
• The Lord St John of Bletso (1759–1817)
• William Elliot (1766–1818)
• George Ponsonby (1755–1817)
• Sir John Newport, Bt (1756–1843)
• The Earl of Donoughmore (1756–1825)
• The Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale (1767–1852)
• The Earl of Lauderdale (1759–1839)
• The Lord Holland (1773–1840)
• Sir John Anstruther, Bt (1753–1811)

1807

• The Hon. Spencer Perceval (1762–1812)
• The Hon. Robert Dundas (1771–1851)
• Sir James Pulteney, Bt (1755–1811)
• The Duke of Richmond (1764–1819)
• The Lord Teignmouth (1751–1834)
• The Hon. Sir Arthur Wellesley (1769–1852)
• The Lord Manners (1756–1842)
• The Earl of Clancarty (1767–1837)
• The Hon. Henry Pierrepont (1780–1851)
• The Hon. Richard Ryder (1766–1832)

1808

• The Hon. Edward Venables (1757–1847)
• The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1764–1839)
• The Viscount Strangford (1780–1855)

1809

• Sir John Nicholl (1759–1838)
• John Randolph (1749–1813)
• The Hon. William Wellesley-Pole (1763–1845)
• The Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865)
• Charles Manners-Sutton (1780–1845)
• The Lord Sheffield (1735–1821)
• The Hon. Henry Wellesley (1773–1847)

1810

• Sir John Sinclair, Bt (1754–1835)

1812

• The Marquess of Winchester (1764–1843)
• The Earl of Yarmouth (1777–1842)
• John McMahon (c.1754–1817)
• Viscount Jocelyn (1788–1870)
• Robert Liston (1742–1836)
• Lord Charles Bentinck (1780–1826)
• Lord George Beresford (1781–1839)
• William FitzGerald (1783–1843)
• Robert Peel (1788–1850)
• The Hon. F. J. Robinson (1782–1859)

1813

• Sir Thomas Plumer (1753–1824)
• William Howley (1766–1848)
• Sir Vicary Gibbs (1751–1820)

1814

• Hugh Elliot (1752–1830)
• Sir Alexander Thomson (1744–1817)
• Warren Hastings (1732–1818)
• The Earl of Shaftesbury (1768–1851)
• The Earl of Aberdeen (1784–1860)
• The Lord Stewart (1778–1854)
• Lord Binning (1780–1858)
• William Huskisson (1770–1830)
• William Sturges Bourne (1769–1845)

1815

• William Adam (1751–1839)
• The Lord Amherst (1773–1857)

1816

• Edward Thornton (1766–1852)
• Sir Henry Russell, Bt (1751–1836)

1817

• Sir Richard Richards (1752–1823)
• Sir George Hill, Bt (1763–1839)
• John Beckett (1775–1847)
• Sir Benjamin Bloomfield (1768–1846)
• The Earl Talbot (1777–1849)
• John Leach (1760–1834)
• Sir William à Court, Bt (1779–1860)

1818

• George Henry Rose (1770–1855)
• Sir Charles Abbott (1762–1832)
• Sir Robert Dallas (1756–1824)

1819

• Charles Grant (1778–1866)
• Sir Samuel Shepherd (1760–1840)