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Lord President of the Council
The current Lord President of the Council
since 14 July 2016
Privy Council Office
StyleThe Right Honourable
AppointerMonarch of the United Kingdom
on advice of the Prime Minister
Inaugural holderCharles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk
Formation14 August 1530
Websitewww.privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/

The Lord President of the Council is the fourth of the Great Officers of State of the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord High Treasurer and above the Lord Privy Seal. The Lord President usually attends and is responsible of presiding over meetings of the Privy Council, presenting business for the monarch's approval. In the modern era, the holder is by convention always a member of one of the houses of Parliament and the office is a Cabinet post. The Lord President is currently David Lidington as of 14 July 2016.

The office and its history

The Privy Council meets once a month, wherever the Sovereign may be residing at the time, to give formal approval to Orders in Council. Only a few Privy Counsellors need attend such meetings, and only when invited to do so at the Government's request. As the duties of the Lord President are not onerous, the post has often been given to a government minister whose responsibilities are not department-specific. In recent years it has been most typical for the Lord President to also serve as Leader of the House of Commons or Leader of the House of Lords.

Before the change of government in 2010, the Lord President was Peter Mandelson, who was also First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.[1] This was the first time that the Lord President had not been a leader of one of the two Houses since the period 20 October 1963 to 16 October 1964, when Quintin Hogg (2nd Viscount Hailsham until November 1963), after resigning as Leader of the House of Lords, kept the office along with the offices of Minister for Sport and, from 1 April 1964, also of Secretary of State for Education and Science.[2]

On several occasions since 1954, non-British Ministers have served briefly as acting Lords President of the Council, solely to preside over a meeting of the Privy Council held in a Commonwealth realm.[3][4][5] Examples of this practice are the meetings in New Zealand in 1990 and 1995, when Geoffrey Palmer and James Bolger respectively were acting Lords President.

In the 19th century, the Lord President was generally the cabinet member responsible for the education system, amongst their other duties. This role was gradually scaled back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries but remnants of it remain, such as the oversight of the governance of various universities.

A particularly vital role was played by the Lord President of the Council during the Second World War. The Lord President served as chairman of the Lord President's Committee. This committee acted as a central clearing house for dealing with the country's economic problems. This was vital to the smooth running of the British war economy and consequently the entire British war effort.

Winston Churchill, clearly believing that this wartime co-ordinating role was beneficial, introduced a similar but expanded system in the first few years of his post-war premiership.[6] The so-called 'overlord ministers' included Frederick Leathers as 'Secretary of State for the Co-ordination of Transport, Fuel and Power' and Frederick Marquis, 1st Baron Woolton as Lord President. Woolton's job was to co-ordinate the then separate ministries of agriculture and food.[7] The historian Peter Hennessy quotes a PhD thesis by Michael Kandiah saying that Woolton was 'arguably the most successful of the Overlords' partly because his ministries were quite closely related, indeed they were merged in 1955 as the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.[8]

The Lord President has no role in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Visitorial role

The Lord President also serves as the Visitor for several British universities, including:

[9]

Partial list of office holders

1530–1553

1621–1631

1678–1714

Name Portrait Concurrent title(s) Tenure Political party Prime Minister

1714-1830

style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Nottingham 23 September 1714 6 July 1716 Tory style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | Viscount Townshend
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2"| Duke of Devonshire 6 July 1716 16 March 1718 Whig
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Stanhope of Mahon
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Sunderland First Lord of the Treasury 16 March 1718 6 February 1719 Whig style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="3" | Earl of Sunderland
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull 6 February 1719 11 June 1720 Whig
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2"| Viscount Townshend Secretary of State for the Northern Department (from 6 February 1721) 11 June 1720 25 June 1721 Whig
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="5" | Sir Robert Walpole
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Carleton 25 June 1721 27 March 1725 Whig
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Duke of Devonshire 27 March 1725 4 June 1729 Whig
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Trevor 8 May 1730 19 June 1730 Tory
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Wilmington 31 December 1730 13 February 1742 Whig
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2"| Earl of Harrington Secretary of State for the Northern Department (from 24 November 1744) 13 February 1742 3 January 1745 Whig style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Wilmington
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="3" | Henry Pelham
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Duke of Dorset Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (from 15 December 1750) 3 January 1745 17 June 1751 Whig
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="5" | Earl Granville 17 June 1751 2 January 1763 Whig
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Duke of Newcastle
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Duke of Devonshire
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Duke of Newcastle
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Bute
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Duke of Bedford 9 September 1763 12 July 1765 Whig style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | George Grenville
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham 12 July 1765 30 July 1766 Whig style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Marquess of Rockingham
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Northington 30 July 1766 22 December 1767 Whig style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | Earl of Chatham
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="3"| Earl Gower 22 December 1767 24 November 1779 Tory
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Duke of Grafton
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | Lord North
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl Bathurst 24 November 1779 27 March 1782 Tory
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | Lord Camden 27 March 1782 2 April 1783 Whig style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Marquess of Rockingham
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Shelburne
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Stormont 2 April 1783 19 December 1783 Tory style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Duke of Portland
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl Gower 19 December 1783 1 December 1784 Tory style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="5" | William Pitt
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Camden, from 1786 Earl Camden 1 December 1784 18 April 1794 Tory
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl Fitzwilliam 1 July 1794 17 December 1794 Whig
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Mansfield 17 December 1794 1 September 1796 Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | Earl of Chatham Lord Privy Seal (until 14 February 1798) 21 September 1796 30 July 1801 Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | Henry Addington
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | Duke of Portland 30 July 1801 14 January 1805 Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="3" | William Pitt
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Sidmouth 14 January 1805 10 July 1805 Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl Camden 10 July 1805 19 February 1806 Tory
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl Fitzwilliam 19 February 1806 8 October 1806 Whig style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | Lord Grenville
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Sidmouth 8 October 1806 26 March 1807 Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | Earl Camden 26 March 1807 8 April 1812 Tory style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Duke of Portland
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | Spencer Perceval
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Sidmouth 8 April 1812 11 June 1812 Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | Earl of Harrowby 11 June 1812 17 August 1827 Tory style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Liverpool
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | George Canning
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Duke of Portland 17 August 1827 28 January 1828 Tory style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Goderich
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl Bathurst 28 January 1828 22 November 1830 Tory style="background-color: Template:Tory Party (UK)/meta/color" | Duke of Wellington

1830-1895

style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | Marquess of Lansdowne 22 November 1830 15 November 1834 Whig style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl Grey
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Melbourne
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Rosslyn 15 December 1834 18 April 1835 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Robert Peel, Bt
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Marquess of Lansdowne 18 April 1835 3 September 1841 Whig style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Melbourne
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Wharncliffe 3 September 1841 19 December 1845 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2"| Sir Robert Peel, Bt
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Duke of Buccleuch 21 January 1846 6 July 1846 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Marquess of Lansdowne Leader of the House of Lords 6 July 1846 27 February 1852 Whig style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord John Russell
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Lonsdale 27 February 1852 28 December 1852 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Derby
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl Granville 28 December 1852 12 June 1854 Whig style="background-color: Template:Peelite/meta/color" rowspan ="2" | Earl of Aberdeen
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord John Russell Leader of the House of Commons 12 June 1854 8 February 1855 Whig
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl Granville Leader of the House of Lords 8 February 1855 26 February 1858 Whig style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Palmerston
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Marquess of Salisbury 26 February 1858 18 June 1859 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Derby
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | Earl Granville Leader of the House of Lords 18 June 1859 6 July 1866 Liberal style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Palmerston
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl Russell
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Duke of Buckingham and Chandos 6 July 1866 8 March 1867 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | Earl of Derby
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | Duke of Marlborough 8 March 1867 9 December 1868 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Benjamin Disraeli
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl de Grey and Ripon 9 December 1868 9 August 1873 Liberal style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | William Ewart Gladstone
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Aberdare 9 August 1873 21 February 1874 Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Duke of Richmond Leader of the House of Lords (to 21 August 1876) 21 February 1874 28 April 1880 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Benjamin Disraeli, from 1876 Earl of Beaconsfield
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl Spencer Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (from 4 May 1882) 28 April 1880 19 March 1883 Liberal style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" rowspan="2" | William Ewart Gladstone
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Carlingford Lord Privy Seal (to 5 March 1885) 19 March 1883 24 June 1885 Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Cranbrook Secretary of State for War (from 21 January 1886) 24 June 1885 6 February 1886 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Marquess of Salisbury
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl Spencer 6 February 1886 3 August 1886 Liberal style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Ewart Gladstone
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Cranbrook 3 August 1886 18 August 1892 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Marquess of Salisbury
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Kimberley Secretary of State for India 18 August 1892 10 March 1894 Liberal style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | William Ewart Gladstone
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color | Earl of Rosebery Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, and Leader of the House of Lords 10 March 1894 29 June 1895 Liberal style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color | Earl of Rosebery

1895–1945

style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" rowspan="2" | Duke of Devonshire President of the Board of Education
(3 March 1900 – July 1902)
29 June 1895 19 October 1903 Liberal Unionist style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Marquess of Salisbury
(Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Lords
(from 12 July 1902)
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Arthur Balfour
(Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Marquess of Londonderry President of the Board of Education 19 October 1903 11 December 1905 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Crewe 11 December 1905 16 April 1908 Liberal style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Henry Campbell-Bannerman
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Tweedmouth 16 April 1908 19 October 1908 rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | H. H. Asquith
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Wolverhampton 19 October 1908 21 June 1910
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl Beauchamp 21 June 1910 7 November 1910
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Morley Secretary of State for India
(7 March – 25 May 1911)
7 November 1910 5 August 1914
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl Beauchamp
(2nd time)
5 August 1914 25 May 1915
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Marquess of Crewe
(2nd time)
style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Lords
President of the Board of Trade
(from 18 August 1916)
25 May 1915 10 December 1916 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | H. H. Asquith
(War coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl Curzon style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Lords 10 December 1916 23 October 1919 Conservative rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | David Lloyd George
(Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Arthur Balfour
(Earl of Balfour from 5 May 1922)
23 October 1919 19 October 1922
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Marquess of Salisbury Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (until 25 May 1923) 24 October 1922 22 January 1924 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Bonar Law
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Stanley Baldwin
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Parmoor 22 January 3 November 1924 Labour style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Ramsay MacDonald
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
(2nd time)
style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Lords 6 November 1924 27 April 1925 Conservative rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Stanley Baldwin
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Balfour
(2nd time)
27 April 1925 4 June 1929
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Parmoor style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Lords 7 June 1929 24 August 1931 Labour style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Ramsay MacDonald
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Stanley Baldwin Lord Privy Seal (29 September 1932 - December 1933) 25 August 1931 7 June 1935 Conservative style="background-color: Template:National Labour Organisation/meta/color" | Ramsay MacDonald
(1st and 2nd Nat. coalition)
style="background-color: Template:National Labour Organisation/meta/color" | Ramsay MacDonald 7 June 1935 28 May 1937 National Labour style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Stanley Baldwin
(3rd Nat. coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Halifax style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Lords
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (from 21 February 1938)
28 May 1937 9 March 1938 Conservative rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Neville Chamberlain
(4th Nat. and War coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Hailsham 9 March 1938 31 October 1938
style="background-color: Template:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)/meta/color" | Viscount Runciman 31 October 1938 3 September 1939 National Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl Stanhope style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Lords 3 September 1939 11 May 1940 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Neville Chamberlain 11 May 1940 3 October 1940 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Winston Churchill
(War coalition)
style="background-color: Template:National Government (United Kingdom)/meta/color" | John Anderson 3 October 1940 24 September 1943 National
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Clement Attlee Deputy Prime Minister 24 September 1943 23 May 1945 Labour
style="background-color: Template:National Government (United Kingdom)/meta/color" | Lord Woolton 25 May 1945 26 July 1945 National style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Winston Churchill
(Caretaker coalition)

1945–2001

style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Herbert Morrison style="background-color: Template:House of Commons/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Commons 27 July 1945 9 March 1951 Labour rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Clement Attlee
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Addison style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Lords 9 March 1951 26 October 1951
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Woolton
(2nd time)
28 October 1951 25 November 1952 Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Winston Churchill
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Marquess of Salisbury rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Lords 25 November 1952 29 March 1957 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Winston Churchill
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Anthony Eden
rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Harold Macmillan
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Home 29 March 1957 17 September 1957
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Hailsham 17 September 1957 14 October 1959
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Earl of Home
(2nd time)
style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Lords 14 October 1959 27 July 1960
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Hailsham
(2nd time)
(as Quintin Hogg
from 20 November 1963,
title disclaimed under Peerage Act 1963)
style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Lords (until Oct. 1963)
and Minister for Science
27 July 1960 16 October 1964
Minister for Science (20 October 1963 – 1 April 1964) rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Alec Douglas-Home
Sec. of State for Education and Science (from Apr. 1964)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Herbert Bowden rowspan="8" style="background-color: Template:House of Commons/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Commons 16 October 1964 11 August 1966 Labour rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Harold Wilson
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Richard Crossman 11 August 1966 18 October 1968
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Fred Peart 18 October 1968 19 June 1970
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Willie Whitelaw 20 June 1970 7 April 1972 Conservative rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Edward Heath
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Robert Carr 7 April 1972 5 November 1972
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Jim Prior 5 November 1972 4 March 1974
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Edward Short 5 March 1974 8 April 1976 Labour style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Harold Wilson
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Michael Foot 8 April 1976 4 May 1979 style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | James Callaghan
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Soames style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Lords 5 May 1979 14 September 1981 Conservative rowspan="7" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Margaret Thatcher
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Francis Pym File:Zconcam61.jpg rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:House of Commons/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Commons 14 September 1981 7 April 1982
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Biffen 7 April 1982 11 June 1983
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Whitelaw
(2nd time)
style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Deputy Prime Minister
Leader of the House of Lords
11 June 1983 10 January 1988
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Wakeham style="background-color: Template:House of Commons/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Commons 10 January 1988 24 July 1989
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Geoffrey Howe style="background-color: Template:House of Commons/meta/color;" | Deputy Prime Minister
Leader of the House of Commons
24 July 1989 1 November 1990
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John MacGregor rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:House of Commons/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Commons 2 November 1990 10 April 1992
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Major
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Tony Newton 10 April 1992 2 May 1997
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Ann Taylor 3 May 1997 27 July 1998 Labour rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Tony Blair
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Margaret Beckett 27 July 1998 8 June 2001

Since 2001

style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Robin Cook rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:House of Commons/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Commons 8 June 2001 18 March 2003 Labour rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Tony Blair
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | John Reid 4 April 2003 13 June 2003
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Williams of Mostyn rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:House of Lords/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Lords 13 June 2003 20 September 2003
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Baroness Amos 6 October 2003 27 June 2007
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Baroness Ashton 28 June 2007 3 October 2008 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Gordon Brown
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Baroness Royall 3 October 2008 5 June 2009
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Lord Mandelson First Secretary of State
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
5 June 2009 11 May 2010
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Nick Clegg Deputy Prime Minister
(with special responsibility for political and constitutional reform)
11 May 2010 8 May 2015 Liberal Democrat rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | David Cameron
(Coalition)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Chris Grayling rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:House of Commons/meta/color;" | Leader of the House of Commons 9 May 2015 14 July 2016 Conservative David Cameron
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | David Lidington 14 July 2016 Theresa May

See also

 Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lord President of the Council". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

References

  1. ^ Patrick Wintour (5 June 2009). "Weakened Gordon Brown unable to shift cabinet's bigger beasts". Guardian.co.uk. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 5 June 2009.
  2. ^ D. Butler and G. Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900–2000
  3. ^ http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1954/may/18/her-majestys-return. Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Lords. 18 May 1954. col. 645. {{cite book}}: |chapter-url= missing title (help) "Her Majesty's Return", Herbert Samuel: "... there has been constitutional work done, there have been acts of State: ... meetings of the Privy Council, an organ of the Constitution older than Parliament itself, for wherever the Sovereign is, and three Privy Counsellors are present, there may be meetings of the Council and Orders passed. So, during this tour there have been sessions of the Privy Council in Australia, in New Zealand and in Ceylon, with their own local Privy Council members – members of the one single Imperial Privy Council, but their own local members."
  4. ^ Cox, Noel (1998–99). "The Dichotomy of Legal Theory and Political Reality: The Honours Prerogative and Imperial Unity". Australian Journal of Law and Society. 1 (14): 15–42. Retrieved 19 November 2011. The Queen has in fact regularly presided over meetings of the Privy Council in New Zealand, since her first in 1954. That was the first held by the Sovereign outside the United Kingdom, although in 1920 Edward Prince of Wales held a Council in Wellington to swear in the Earl of Liverpool as Governor-General.
  5. ^ Kumarasingham, Harshan (2010). Onward with Executive Power: Lessons from New Zealand 1947–57 (PDF). Wellington, New Zealand: Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington. p. 71. ISBN 978-1-877347-37-5. Retrieved 19 November 2011. The Queen held a meeting of the Privy Council [on 13 January 1954] at the 'Court at Government House at Wellington' with her New Zealand prime minister as 'acting Lord President' of the council. The deputy prime minister, Keith Holyoake, 'secured for himself a place in constitutional history by becoming the first member to be sworn of Her Majesty's Council outside the United Kingdom'.
  6. ^ Hennessy, Peter. The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders Since 1945 (2000), pp.189–190.
  7. ^ Hennessy, p.191
  8. ^ Hennessy, pp.193
  9. ^ https://privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/work-of-the-privy-council-office/higher-education/universities/