List of people removed from a Privy Council

This is a list of people removed from the Privy Council of England, of Ireland, of Great Britain, and of the United Kingdom.

Membership of a Privy Council, once given, normally lasts for life, but it is possible for Privy Counsellors to be expelled from membership or to be removed at their own request. In either circumstance it is possible to be restored to membership.

Individual Appointed Removed Restored Notes Lord Churchill 14 February 1689 23 June 1692"Haydn's Book of Dignities", new ed. by Horace Ockerby, W. H. Allen & Co., London, 1894, p. 193. 19 June 1698 Both struck out of the list as being suspected of intrigues with the deposed former King James II."Complete Peerage", New edition ed. by H. A. Doubleday and Lord Howard de Walden, St Catherine Press, 1932, Vol VIII, p. 493. Earl of Shrewsbury 4 March 1694 Duke of Ormonde 6 April 1696 September 1714 Struck out of the list after the accession of King George I."Complete Peerage", New edition ed. by H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White and Lord Howard de Walden, St Catherine Press, 1945, Vol X, p. 159. Subsequently attainted 20 August 1715. Earl Coningsby 13 April 1693 7 November 1724"Haydn's Book of Dignities", new ed. by Horace Ockerby, W. H. Allen & Co., London, 1894, p. 194. Struck out of the list as a result of a petition from the Leominster corporation arising from his "tyranny and injustice" as a landowner there."CONINGSBY, Thomas, 1st Baron Coningsby [I] (1656-1729)", The History of Parliament 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970, vol. I p. 571. Earl of Macclesfield 30 March 1710 31 May 1725"Haydn's Book of Dignities", new ed. by Horace Ockerby, W. H. Allen & Co., London, 1894, p. 195. Struck out of the list after being convicted of corruption and fined £30,000."Complete Peerage", New edition ed. by H. A. Doubleday and Lord Howard de Walden, St Catherine Press, 1932, Vol VIII, p. 333. William Pulteney 6 July 1716 1 July 1731"Haydn's Book of Dignities", new ed. by Horace Ockerby, W. H. Allen & Co., London, 1894, p. 196. 20 February 1742 Struck out of the list after writing an offensive pamphlet against both Robert Walpole and King George II."PULTENEY, William (1684-1764)", The History of Parliament 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970, vol. II pp. 375-6. Lord George Sackville 27 January 1758 25 April 1760"Haydn's Book of Dignities", new ed. by Horace Ockerby, W. H. Allen & Co., London, 1894, p. 200. 20 December 1765. Struck out of the list after failing to obey orders to bring up the cavalry at the Battle of Minden."SACKVILLE (afterwards GERMAIN), Lord George (1716-85)", The History of Parliament 1754-1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke, 1964, vol. III p. 391. Restored 20 December 1765. Henry Flood 20 September 1776 1781 Struck out of the list "by the King's own hand"."Haydn's Book of Dignities", new ed. by Horace Ockerby, W. H. Allen & Co., London, 1894, p. 203. Charles James Fox 30 March 1782 9 May 1798"Haydn's Book of Dignities", new ed. by Horace Ockerby, W. H. Allen & Co., London, 1894, p. 203. 5 February 1806 Struck out of the list after making a toast to the sovereignty of the people."FOX, Hon. Charles James (1749-1806)", The History of Parliament 1790-1820, ed. R. Thorne, 1986, vol III pp. 816-7. Viscount Melville 31 July 1782 9 May 1805"Haydn's Book of Dignities", new ed. by Horace Ockerby, W. H. Allen & Co., London, 1894, p. 204. 8 April 1807 Requested to be removed on 11 June 1805, after criticism in the Tenth Report of the Naval Commissioners of Inquiry."DUNDAS, Henry (1742-1811)", The History of Parliament 1790-1820, ed. R. Thorne, 1986, vol III p 642. Sir Edgar Speyer, Bt. 22 November 1909 13 December 1921 Struck out of the list after an inquiry found he had shown himself "to be disaffected and disloyal to His Majesty"."Report made to the Secretary of State for the Home Department by the Certificates of Naturalization (Revocation) Committee in the case of Sir Edgar Speyer", Cmd. 1569. John Profumo 8 February 1960 26 June 1963 Requested to be removed after admitting giving a false statement to Parliament. John Stonehouse 28 June 1968 17 August 1976 Requested to be removed after conviction for theft and false pretences, and being sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. Jonathan Aitken 21 July 1994 26 June 1997 Requested to be removed after withdrawing from a libel case; police had begun investigating him for perjury. Elliot Morley 19 December 2006 8 June 2011 Struck out of the list after pleading guilty to false accounting, and being sentenced to imprisonment for 16 months. Chris Huhne 13 May 2010 13 March 2013 Requested to be removed after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice. Denis MacShane 22 June 2005 9 October 2013 Requested to be removed after being charged with false accounting. Lord Prescott 27 July 1994 6 November 2013 Requested to be removed in protest at the delay in granting the Royal Charter on self-regulation of the press. Sir Seamus Treacy 12 January 2018 24 April 2018 Requested to be removed. Percival Patterson 1993 13 April 2022 Requested to be removed in recognition of a consensus in Jamaica that there should be a locally chosen head of state. Peter Mandelson 29 July 1998 10 March 2026 Struck out of the list on the advice of Prime Minister Keir Starmer following revelations of his continued ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Donaldson 15 May 2007 8 July 2026 Requested to be removed following conviction for multiple sexual offences. Craig Williams 15 November 2023 8 July 2026 Requested to be removed following conviction for insider betting on the date of the general election.</ref>

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