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This is a List of Privy Counsellors of England and Great Britain appointed between the reorganisation of the Privy Council in 1679 and the death of Queen Anne in 1714.


Charles II, 1679–1685


1679

* The Earl of Shaftesbury (1621–1683) (expelled 1679) * The Lord Finch (1621–1682) * The Earl of Anglesey (1614–1686) * The Duke of Albemarle (1653–1688) * The Duke of Monmouth (1649–1685) * The Marquess of Winchester (1624–1699) * The Earl of Arlington (1618–1685) * The Earl of Salisbury (1648–1683) (expelled 1681) * The Earl of Bridgewater (1623–1686) * The Earl of Sunderland (1679–1702) (expelled 1681; readmitted 1682) * The Earl of Essex (1631–1683) * The Earl of Bath (1628–1701) * The Viscount Halifax (1633–1695) (expelled 1685) * Hon. Henry Compton (1632–1713) * The Lord Robartes * Lord Russell (1639–1683) * Lord Cavendish (1641–1707) * Hon. Henry Coventry (1619–1686) * Sir Francis North (1637–1685) * Sir Henry Capel (1638–1696) * Sir John Ernle (1620–1697) * Sir Thomas Chicheley (1618–1699) (expelled 1687) * Sir William Temple, Bt (1628–1699) * Sir Edward Seymour, Bt (1633–1708) *
Henry Powle Henry Powle (18 October 1630 – 21 November 1692) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1690, and was Speaker of the House of Commons from January 1689 to February 1690. He was ...
(1630–1692) *
William Sancroft William Sancroft (30 January 161724 November 1693) was the 79th Archbishop of Canterbury, and was one of the Seven Bishops imprisoned in 1688 for seditious libel against King James II, over his opposition to the king's Declaration of Indul ...
(1617–1693) * The Duke of Lauderdale (1616–1682) * The Marquess of Worcester (1629–1699) * The Viscount Fauconberg (1628–1700) * The Duke of Newcastle (1630–1691) * The Lord Holles (1599–1680) * Hon. Laurence Hyde (1642–1711)


1680

* Hon. Daniel Finch (1647–1730) *
Sidney Godolphin Sidney Godolphin is the name of: * Sidney Godolphin (colonel) (1652–1732), Member of Parliament for fifty years * Sidney Godolphin (poet) (1610–1643), English poet * Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin (c. 1640–1712), leading British poli ...
(1645–1712) * Sir Leoline Jenkins (1623–1685) * The Earl of Ossory (1634–1680) * The Earl of Clarendon (1638–1709) * Sir Robert Carr, Bt (1637–1682)


1681

* The Earl of Oxford (1626–1703) * The Earl of Chesterfield (1634–1714) * The Earl of Ailesbury (1638–1685) * The Earl of Conway (1623–1683) * The Earl of Craven (1606–1697)


1682

* George Legge (1648–1691) * The Duke of Ormonde (1610–1688) * The Earl of Lindsey (1630–1701) * Sir Francis Pemberton (1625–1697)


1683

* The Earl of Huntingdon (1650–1701) * The Earl of Peterborough (1624–1697) * Sir George Jeffreys (1648–1689)


1684

* The Earl of Moray (1634–1701) * The Earl of Middleton (1650–1719)


1685

* John Drummond (1650–1715)


James II, 1685–1688

* Prince George of Denmark (1653–1708) * The Duke of Queensberry (1637–1695) * The Earl of Perth (1648–1716) * The Earl of Mulgrave (1648–1721) * The Earl of Berkeley (1628–1698) * Sir Edward Herbert (1648–1698) * The Viscount Preston (1648–1695) * The Earl of Plymouth (1627–1687)


1688

* The Lord Crew (1633–1721) * The Earl of Powis (1617–1696) * The Lord Arundell of Wardour (1606–1694) * The Lord Belasyse (1614–1689) * The Lord Dover (1636–1708) (
Earl of Dover The title Earl of Dover has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Jacobite Peerage. The creation in the Peerage of England occurred in 1628 when Henry Carey, 1st Viscount Rochford, was created Earl of Dover, in the ...
in the Jacobite Peerage) * The Earl of Tyrconnell (1630–1691) * The Earl of Castlemaine (1634–1705) * The Duke of Hamilton (1635–1694) *Sir Nicholas Butler * Edward Petre (1631–1699)


1688

*
Silius Titus Silius Titus (1623–1704), of Bushey, was an English politician, Captain of Deal Castle, and Groom of the Bedchamber to King Charles II. Colonel Titus was an organiser in the attempted escape of King Charles I from Carisbrooke Castle. Early l ...
(1623–1704)


William III and Mary II, 1689–1702


1689

* The Earl of Danby (1631–1712) *
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(1653–1701) * The Marquess of Winchester (1625–1699) * The Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) * The Earl of Lindsey (1630–1701) * The Earl of Devonshire (1640–1707) * The Earl of Dorset (1638–1706) * The Earl of Oxford (1626–1703) * The Earl of Shrewsbury (1660–1718) (expelled 1692; re-admitted 1694) * The Earl of Bedford (1613–1700) * The Earl of Macclesfield (1618–1694) * The Viscount Fauconberg (1628–1700) * The Earl of Monmouth (1658–1735) * The Viscount Newport (1620–1708) * The Lord Lumley (1650–1721) * Hon. Henry Compton (1632–1713) * The Lord Montagu (1638–1709) * The Lord Delamere (1652–1694) * The Lord Churchill (1650–1722) * William Bentinck (1649–1709) * Hon. Henry Sydney (1641–1704) * Hon. Sir Robert Howard (1626–1698) * Sir Henry Capell (1637–1696) *
Henry Powle Henry Powle (18 October 1630 – 21 November 1692) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1690, and was Speaker of the House of Commons from January 1689 to February 1690. He was ...
(1630–1692) * Edward Russell (1653–1727) *
Richard Hampden Richard Hampden (baptized 13 October 1631 – 15 December 1695) was an English Whig politician and son of Ship money tax protester John Hampden. He was sworn a Privy Counsellor in 1689 and was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 18 March 1690 unt ...
(1631–1695) * Hugh Boscawen (1625–1701) * Hon. Thomas Wharton (1648–1715) * Sir John Lowther, Bt (1655–1700) * Arthur Herbert (1647–1716) * William Harbord (1635–1692) * The Duke of Schomberg (1615–1690) *
Sir John Holt Sir John Holt (23 December 1642 – 5 March 1710) was an English lawyer who served as Lord Chief Justice of England from 17 April 1689 to his death. He is frequently credited with playing a major role in ending the prosecution of witches in Eng ...
(1642–1710) * The Earl of Pembroke (1656–1733)


1690

* Sir Henry Goodricke, Bt (1642–1705) * The Marquess of Winchester (1661–1722) * The Lord Godolphin (1645–1712)


1691

* Sir John Trevor (1637–1717) * The Earl of Bridgewater (1646–1701) *
John Tillotson John Tillotson (October 1630 – 22 November 1694) was the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 to 1694. Curate and rector Tillotson was the son of a Puritan clothier at Haughend, Sowerby, Yorkshire. Little is known of his early youth ...
(1630–1694)


1692

* The Earl of Rochester (1641–1711) * The Earl of Ranelagh (1636–1712) * The Lord Cornwallis (1655–1698) * Sir Edward Seymour, Bt (1633–1708) * The Viscount Falkland (1656–1694) * The Lord Lexinton (1661–1723)


1693

* Sir John Somers (1651–1716) * Sir John Trenchard (1649–1695) * The Lord Coningsby (1657–1729) (expelled 1724)


1694

* Viscount Dursley (1649–1710) * The Earl of Stamford (1654–1720) * Charles Montagu (1661–1715)


1695

*
Thomas Tenison Thomas Tenison (29 September 163614 December 1715) was an English church leader, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1694 until his death. During his primacy, he crowned two British monarchs. Life He was born at Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, the son a ...
(1636–1715) * Sir William Trumbull (1639–1716) * The Duke of Schomberg (1641–1719) * The Earl of Tankerville (d. 1701) * Hon. Peregrine Bertie (1663–1711) * John Smith (1655–1723)


1696

* The Duke of Ormonde (1665–1745) (expelled 1715) * Sir Joseph Williamson (1633–1701)


1697

* The Earl of Jersey (1656–1711) *
James Vernon James Vernon (1646–1727) was an English administrator and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1679 and 1710. He was Secretary of State for both the Northern and the Southern Departments during the rei ...
(1646–1727)


1698

* The Earl of Manchester (1660–1722)


1699

* The Lord Ferrers (1650–1717)


1700

* Sir Nathan Wright (1654–1721) * Sir Charles Hedges (1650–1714)


1701

* Hon. Henry Boyle (1669–1725) * The Earl of Lindsey (1660–1723) * The Earl of Carlisle (1669–1738) * The Duke of Somerset (1662–1748)


1702

* The Earl of Radnor (1660–1723) * The Earl of Burlington (1660–1704)


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, 1702–1714


1702

* The Marquess of Normanby (1648–1721) * The Earl of Abingdon (1672–1743) * Sir John Leveson-Gower, Bt (1675–1709) * John Grobham Howe (1657–1722) * The Earl of Nottingham (1647–1730) * The Earl of Northampton (1664–1727) * The Viscount Weymouth (1640–1714) * The Lord Dartmouth (1672–1750) * John Granville (1665–1707) * Sir Thomas Trevor (1658–1730) * Sir George Rooke (1650–1709) * The Lord Poulett (1663–1743)


1703

* John Sharp (1645–1714) * The Earl of Thanet (1644–1729) * The Lord Guernsey (1649–1719)


1704

* The Earl of Kent (1671–1740) * Robert Harley (1661–1724) * Thomas Mansell (1667–1723)


1705

* The Duke of Newcastle (1662–1711) * The Earl of Peterborough (1658–1735) * The Lord Cholmondeley (1662–1724) *
Thomas Erle General Thomas Erle PC (1650 – 23 July 1720) of Charborough, Dorset, was a general in the English Army and, thereafter, the British Army. He was also a Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons of England and of Great Britain from ...
(1650–1720) *
William Cowper William Cowper ( ; 26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and sce ...
(1665–1723)


1706

* The Earl of Derby (1664–1736) * The Earl of Sunderland (1675–1722)


1707

*
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(1672–1729)


1708

* The Marquess of Dorchester (1665–1726) * The Earl of Bindon (1670–1718) * The Earl of Mar (1675–1732) * The Viscount Townshend (1674–1738) * The Duke of Queensberry (1662–1711) * The Earl of Seafield (1664–1730) * The Duke of Montrose (1682–1742) * The Earl Rivers (1654–1712) * The Earl of Essex (1670–1709) * The Earl of Loudoun (d. 1731) * Thomas Coke (1674–1727)


1709

* The Duke of Argyll (1680–1743) * The Duke of Roxburghe (1680–1741) * Sir John Holland, Bt (d. 1724) * The Earl of Orford (1653–1727)


1710

* The Earl of Bradford (1644–1723) * Sir Thomas Parker (1666–1732) (expelled 1725) *
Sir Richard Onslow Sir Richard Onslow (1601 – 19 May 1664) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1664. He fought on the Roundhead, Parliamentary side during the English Civil War ...
(1654–1717) * The Earl of Anglesey (1676–1710) * Henry St John (1678–1751) * Sir Simon Harcourt (1661–1727) * Lord Hyde (1672–1753) * The Earl of Anglesey (1678–1737) * The Duke of Beaufort (1684–1714)


1711

* The Earl of Orrery (1674–1731) * The Earl of Orkney (1670–1737) * The Marquess of Annandale (d. 1721) * The Earl of Winchilsea (1672–1712) * Robert Benson (1676–1731) * Hon. Henry Paget (1663–1743) * The Earl of Strafford (1672–1739) * William Bromley (1663–1732) * John Robinson (1650–1723) * The Earl of Clarendon (1661–1723) * The Earl of Islay (1659–1724) * The Lord North (1678–1734)


1712

* The Duke of Atholl (1660–1724) * The Lord Lansdowne (1666–1735) * The Earl of Portmore (1656–1730) * Major-General John Hill (d. 1735) * The Lord Guilford (1673–1729)


1713

* The Duke of Northumberland (1665–1716) * Sir John Stonehouse (c. 1672–1733) * Sir William Wyndham, Bt (1688–1740) {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Privy Counsellors (1679-1714) Government of England 1679 Charles II of England James II of England William III of England Mary II of England Anne, Queen of Great Britain