List of members of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland

This is a list of members of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland
Privy Council of Northern Ireland
The Privy Council of Northern Ireland was a formal body of advisors to the sovereign and was a vehicle for the monarch's prerogative powers in Northern Ireland. It was modelled on the Privy Council of the United Kingdom....

. The Privy Council was created in 1922, and ceased to meet in 1972, since when no appointments have been made although it has never been formally abolished. Five members are still living as of April 2011.

Members

Appointed	Name	Born	Died
1922	Thomas Watters Brown Thomas Watters Brown Thomas Watters Brown PC was an Irish lawyer and politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for North Down in 1918 and was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in June 1921. On 5 August of the same year he was promoted to Attorney-General for Ireland. He was the last holder of both offices...	1879	1944
1922	William Henry Holmes Lyons	1843	1924
1922	Hugh Pollock Hugh Pollock Hugh MacDowell Pollock PC , was an Ulster Unionist member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 until his death in 1937....	1852	1937
1922	J. M. Andrews	1871	1956
1922	Edward Archdale	1853	1943
1922	Sir James Craig, Bt James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, PC, PC , was a prominent Irish unionist politician, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland...	1871	1940
1922	Sir Dawson Bates Dawson Bates Sir Richard Dawson Bates, 1st Baronet, OBE, PC, JP, DL , also known as Sir Dawson Bates , was an Ulster Unionist Party member of the Northern Ireland House of Commons....	1876	1949
1922	Richard Best Richard Best (judge) Richard Best PC KC was an Irish barrister, politician and Lord Justice of Appeal.Best was born in Richhill, County Armagh. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and was called to the bar by the King's Inns, Dublin in 1895. He took silk in 1912 and was elected a bencher in 1918...	1872	1939
1922	The Marquess of Londonderry Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, KG, MVO, PC, PC , styled Lord Stewart until 1884 and Viscount Castlereagh between 1884 and 1915, was an Anglo-Irish peer and had careers in both Irish and British politics...	1878	1949
1922	William Moore Sir William Moore, 1st Baronet Sir William Moore, 1st Baronet PC was a Unionist member of the British House of Commons from Ireland and a Judge of Ireland, then of Northern Ireland. He was created a Baronet in 1932.Sir William was the eldest son of Queen Victoria's honourary physician in Ireland, Dr...	1864	1944
1922	Hugh O'Neill Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan Robert William Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan PC , known as Sir Hugh O'Neill, Bt, from 1929 to 1953, was an Ulster Unionist member of both the UK Parliament and the Parliament of Northern Ireland....	1883	1982
1923	Charles Curtis Craig Charles Curtis Craig Charles Curtis Craig , was an Irish Unionst and later Ulster Unionist politician. He was Member of Parliament for constituencies in County Antrim from 1903 to 1929, taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom...	1869	1960
1923	Samuel Cunningham Samuel Cunningham Samuel Cunningham PC was a Northern Irish businessman, stockbroker and politician.Cunningham was born at Fernhill House, Glencairn, Belfast, and educated at Belfast Academy and at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh...	1862	1946
1923	Herbert Dixon Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran OBE PC was a Northern Ireland Unionist politician.He was born in Belfast, the fourth son of Sir Daniel Dixon, 1st Baronet, and educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, being commissioned into the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, with which regiment he served in the Second...	1880	1950
1923	Thomas Moles Thomas Moles Thomas Moles was an Ulster Unionist politician. Born in Belfast, Ireland in 1871, he was educated at the Collegiate School, Ballymena....	1871	1937
1923	Henry Wynne	1867	1943
1924	James Andrews Sir James Andrews, 1st Baronet Sir James Andrews, 1st Baronet, KC, PC was the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and brother of Prime Minister John Miller Andrews and Thomas Andrews, builder of the Titanic.-Early life:...	1877	1951
1925	Milne Barbour Milne Barbour Sir John Milne Barbour, 1st Baronet JP, DL was a Northern Irish politician and baronet. As a member of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland he was styled The Right Honourable Sir Milne Barbour.-Background and education:...	1868	1951
1926	Anthony Babington Anthony Babington (politician) Sir Anthony Brutus Babington PC KC was an Irish barrister, judge and politician.He was educated at Glenalmond School, Perthshire and Trinity College, Dublin...	1877	1972
1926	The Viscount Charlemont James Caulfeild, 8th Viscount Charlemont James Edward Caulfeild, 8th Viscount Charlemont, PC , DL was an Irish Peer, elected to the British House of Lords as a Representative Peer and to the Parliament of Northern Ireland as a Senator...	1880	1949
1927	Robert Anderson	1871	1937
1927	Sir William George Turner William George Turner William George Turner was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Ballygawley, County Tyrone, Turner became a fruiterer on the Shankill Road. He first stood for election to the Belfast Corporation in the Cliftonville ward in 1909. Although he was officially an independent Unionist, he...	1872	1937
1930	Harry Mulholland Sir Henry Mulholland, 1st Baronet Sir Henry George Hill Mulholland, 1st Baronet PC , was a Northern Ireland politician.Mulholland was the third son of Henry Lyle Mulholland, 2nd Baron Dunleath, and Norah Louisa Fanny Ward...	1888	1971
1931	The Viscount Bangor Maxwell Ward, 6th Viscount Bangor Maxwell Richard Crosbie Ward, 6th Viscount Bangor was an Irish peer and politician.Ward was educated at Harrow School and the Military Academy, Woolwich. He was a representative peer in the House of Lords from 1913-1950 and an Ulster Unionist member of the Senate of Northern Ireland from 1921...	1868	1950
1931	Sir Thomas Dixon, Bt Sir Thomas Dixon, 2nd Baronet Sir Thomas James Dixon, 2nd Baronet PC , was a Northern Ireland politician.Dixon was the eldest son of Sir Daniel Dixon, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of Belfast. He succeeded his father as second Baronet in 1907. Dixon was a Member of the Senate of Northern Ireland from 1924 to 1950 and was admitted to...	1868	1950
1932	Henry Bruce Armstrong Henry Bruce Armstrong Henry Bruce Wright Armstrong was a Northern Irish barrister and politician, Unionist MP for Mid Armagh from January 1921 until 1922....	1844	1943
1933	Sir Basil Brooke, Bt Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Bt, KG, CBE, MC, PC, HML was an Ulster Unionist politician who became the third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in 1943 and held office until 1963....	1888	1973
1936	The Earl of Kilmorey Francis Needham, 4th Earl of Kilmorey Francis Charles Adelbert Henry Needham, 4th Earl of Kilmorey PC OBE , styled Viscount Newry from 1883 to 1915, was an Anglo-Irish peer.-Background:...	1883	1961
1936	Maurice McCausland	1872	1938
1937	John Hanna Robb John Hanna Robb John Hanna Robb was a Northern Irish barrister and Ulster Unionist Party politician.The son of Rev. J. Gardner Robb, DD, LLD, Robb was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Queen's College, Belfast and called to the Bar at Gray's Inn and King's Inns, Dublin in 1898.He was a Stormont MP...	1884	1957
1937	David Graham Shillington David Graham Shillington Major David Graham Shillington PC was an Ulster Unionist politician.He was educated at Methodist College Belfast and Rydalmount School, Colwyn Bay...	1872	1944
1938	John Fawcett Gordon John Fawcett Gordon John Fawcett Gordon PC was a politician in Northern Ireland.He was educated at Falls River School, Massachusetts, United States. He was manager of flax camps and a member of Belfast Corporation from 1920-23...	1879	1965
1939	Edward Sullivan Murphy Edward Sullivan Murphy Edward Sullivan Murphy PC KC was an Irish barrister, judge and politician. He was brother-in-law to Northern Ireland's first Lord Chief Justice, Sir Denis Henry, Bt. .He was educated at Charterhouse School, Surrey, and Trinity College, Dublin...	1880	1945
1940	Sir Joseph Davison Joseph Davison Sir Joseph Davison was a prominent Northern Irish Unionist politician.He was knighted in the Honours for the Opening of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1921...	1868	1948
1940	John MacDermott John MacDermott, Baron MacDermott John Clarke MacDermott, Baron MacDermott, MC PC was a Northern Irish politician and lawyer who was Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland from 1951 to 1971....	1896	1979
1941	William Grant	1877	1949
1941	Sir Crawford McCullagh, Bt Crawford McCullagh Sir Crawford McCullagh, 1st Baronet was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.McCullagh was the director of several businesses in Belfast, including Maguire and Patterson, a dry goods firm , and the Classic Cinema at Castle Place, as well as owning McCullagh and Co., a silk mercers, milliners...	1868	1948
1942	James Graham Leslie James Graham Leslie James Graham Leslie was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Leslie studied at Gray's Inn and briefly went into the law, before joining the Contract Department of the British Foreign Office. In 1907, he served as High Sheriff of Antrim. He resigned when given control of his family estates,...	1868	1949
1943	Robert Corkey Robert Corkey The Very Rev. Professor Robert Corkey, PC , was a Presbyterian minister, a professor of theology and a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland....	1881	1966
1943	William Lowry William Lowry William Lowry PC KC was an Irish barrister, judge, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament and Attorney General for Northern Ireland-Career:...	1884	1949
1943	Harry Midgley Harry Midgley Henry Cassidy Midgley, PC , known as Harry Midgley was a prominent politician in Northern Ireland. Born to a unionist family in Belfast, he worked in the textile industry before joining the Royal Engineers during World War I....	1893	1957
1943	Robert Moore	1886	1960
1943	Maynard Sinclair Maynard Sinclair Major The Rt Hon. John Maynard Sinclair was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Born in Belfast, in 1896, son of John Sinclair DL and Alice Montgomery, he was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and in Switzerland. He served in the British Army during World War I...	1896	1953
1944	Samuel Hall-Thompson Samuel Hall-Thompson Lt-Col. Samuel Hall-Thompson was a Unionist politician from Northern Ireland.Hall-Thompson was born in Crawfordsburn and studied at Dulwich College. His father, Rt. Hon. Robert Thompson, DL, was also an MP...	1885	1954
1944	Roland Nugent	1886	1962
1944	Edmond Warnock Edmond Warnock John Edmond Warnock PC KC was an Irish barrister and politician.Born in Belfast, he was educated at Methodist College Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin. He was called to the English Bar in 1911, to the Northern Ireland Bar in 1921 and was appointed as King's Counsel in 1933...	1887	1972
1945	Brian Maginess Brian Maginess William Brian Maginess, QC was a member of the Government of Northern Ireland, who was widely seen as a possible successor to Lord Brookeborough as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland....	1901	1967
1946	The Duke of Abercorn James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn KG, KP, PC , styled Marquess of Hamilton between 1885 and 1913, was a British peer and Unionist politician. He was the first Governor of Northern Ireland, a post he held between 1922 and 1945...	1869	1953
1946	Samuel Clarke Porter	1875	1956
1946	Sir Norman Stronge, Bt Norman Stronge Captain Sir Charles Norman Lockhart Stronge, 8th Baronet, MC, PC , JP was a senior Unionist politician in Northern Ireland....	1894	1981
1947	Arthur Black	1888	1968
1949	William McCleery William McCleery (politician) William McCleery was a prominent Unionist in Northern Ireland.McCleery was the managing director of Hale, Martin and Company, and from 1921 until 1946 was the President of the Ballymoney Chamber of Commerce, from 1922 until 1945 was Chair of the North Antrim Agricultural Association, and from 1931...	1887	1957
1949	Dame Dehra Parker Dehra Parker Dame Dehra S. Parker, GBE, PC was the longest serving woman MP in the Northern Ireland House of Commons.-Family life:...	1882	1963
1950	Ivan Neill Ivan Neill Sir Ivan Neill was an Army officer and Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.-Early life:Born in Belfast, Ireland, Neill studied at Ravenscroft National School and Shaftesbury Tutorial College before receiving a BSc in Economics from Queen's University, Belfast...	1906	2001
1951	Alexander Gordon Alexander Gordon (politician) Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Robert Gisborne Gordon GBE DSO PC was a Unionist Member and Senator in the Parliament of Northern Ireland.-Family background:...	1882	1967
1953	The Lord Glentoran Daniel Dixon, 2nd Baron Glentoran Daniel Stewart Thomas Bingham Dixon, 2nd Baron Glentoran KBE was a Northern Ireland soldier and politician....	1912	1995
1953	George Hanna	1906	1964
1956	Terence O'Neill Terence O'Neill Terence Marne O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, PC was the fourth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Ulster Unionist Party...	1914	1990
1957	Jack Andrews Jack Andrews Sir John Lawson Ormrod Andrews KBE, DL was a member of both the Northern Ireland House of Commons and the Senate of Northern Ireland....	1903	1986
1957	Lancelot Curran Lancelot Curran Major Sir Lancelot Ernest Curran was a Northern Ireland High Court judge and parliamentarian.He was elected as Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for Carrick in the Stormont Parliament serving from 1945 till 1949, and was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance...	1899	1984
1957	William May William May (politician) William Morrison May was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.May was born at Marlborough Park, Belfast, the son of William May JP, and educated at Methodist College, Belfast...	1909	1962
1959	Brian Faulkner Brian Faulkner Arthur Brian Deane Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick, PC was the sixth and last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from March 1971 until his resignation in March 1972...	1922	1977
1960	Harry West Harry West Henry William West was a politician in Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party from 1974 until 1979.West was born in County Fermanagh and educated at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen...	1917	2004
1961	William James Morgan William James Morgan William James Morgan was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.A businessman by profession, he owned James Morgan & Sons, a transport contractors' business. He was president of the Irish Temperance Alliance and chairman of Oldpark YMCA...	1914	1999
1962	Herbert Kirk Herbert Kirk Herbert Kirk was an Ulster Unionist cabinet minister in Parliament of Northern Ireland.Born in Belfast, Kirk studied at Queen's University, Belfast before becoming an accountant....	1912	2006
1963	William Craig	1924	2011
1964	Brian McConnell Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell Robert William Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell was an Ulster Unionist MP in the Northern Ireland House of Commons....	1922	2000
1965	William Fitzsimmons William Fitzsimmons (politician) William Kennedy Fitzsimmons was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Belfast, Fitzsimmons studied at Skegoneill National School and Belfast Technical College. He became a domestic engineer, and in 1948 was appointed as a Belfast Water Commissioner, serving as chairman of the...	1909	1992
1965	Edward Warburton Jones Edward Warburton Jones Sir Edward Warburton Jones PC PC QC was a Northern Irish barrister, judge and politician.Teddy Jones was educated at Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin...	1912	1993
1965	Herbert McVeigh Herbert McVeigh Herbert Andrew McVeigh , known as Bertie McVeigh, was a judge in Northern Ireland.Born in Derry, McVeigh studied at Foyle College and Queen's University Belfast and became a barrister in 1931. He became a QC in 1948, then a High Court judge in 1956, and was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 1964...	1908	1977
1966	William Long	1922	2008
1966	James Chichester-Clark James Chichester-Clark James Dawson Chichester-Clark, Baron Moyola, PC, DL was the penultimate Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and eighth leader of the Ulster Unionist Party between 1969 and March 1971. He was Member of the Northern Ireland Parliament for South Londonderry for 12 years beginning at the by-election...	1923	2002
1967	Walter Topping Walter Topping Walter William Buchanan Topping was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Topping studied at the Rossall School and Queen's University Belfast, before becoming a barrister in 1930. During World War II, he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Artillery...	1908	1980
1969	Roy Bradford Roy Bradford Roy Hamilton Bradford was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland and a government minister in both the Parliament of Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973....	1920	1998
1969	John Dobson John Dobson (UK politician) John Dobson is a former solicitor and unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Lurgan, Dobson studied at Lurgan College and Trinity College Dublin. He joined the Ulster Unionist Party and was elected to Banbridge Urban District Council in 1961, serving until 1967. In 1965, he was elected...	1929	Living
1969	Basil Kelly Basil Kelly Sir John William Basil Kelly, QC, PC, PC was a Northern Irish barrister, judge and politician.He was born in Belfast and was educated at Methodist College Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin. He was called to the Northern Irish Bar in 1944 and took silk in 1958. He served as senior Crown Counsel...	1920	2008
1969	Nat Minford Nat Minford Nathaniel Owens Minford , known as Nat Minford, was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Minford was born in Templepatrick and was the son of Hugh Minford, who became an Ulster Unionist Party Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland...	1912	1975
1969	Phelim O'Neill Phelim O'Neill, 2nd Baron Rathcavan Phelim Robert Hugh O’Neill, 2nd Baron Rathcavan PC , was a politician in Northern Ireland and a hereditary peer in the British House of Lords....	1909	1994
1969	Robert Porter Robert Porter (politician) Sir Robert Wilson Porter PC , QC is a former politician and barrister in Northern Ireland.Born in Derry, Porter studied at Foyle College and Queen's University Belfast before in 1943 joining the Royal Air Force, and serving until 1946...	1923	Living
1969	Robert Simpson Robert Simpson (UK politician) Robert Simpson , often known as Bob Simpson was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Ballymena, Simpson studied medicine at Queen's University, Belfast before setting up his own practice. He joined the Ulster Unionist Party in 1952, and was selected as the party's candidate for Mid...	1923	1997
1971	Robin Bailie Robin Bailie Robin John Bailie is a Northern Irish solicitor and former politician.Bailie was born in Toomebridge, County Antrim, and studied at the Rainey Endowed School and Queen's University, Belfast. He was a member of the Belfast Junior Chamber of Commerce, and an officer of the Ulster Young Unionist...	1937	Living
1971	David Bleakley David Bleakley The Right Hon. David Bleakley, OBE is a politician in Northern Ireland.Born in the Strandtown district of Belfast, Bleakley worked as an electrician in the Harland and Wolff dockyards while becoming increasingly active in his trade union. He studied economics at Ruskin College in Oxford, where he...	1925	Living
1971	John Brooke John Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough John Warden Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough, Bt, PC was a Northern Irish politician, the son of Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, the 1st Viscount Brookeborough.-Early life:...	1922	1987
1971	Robert Lowry Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry Sir Robert Lynd Erskine Lowry, Baron Lowry PC , often known as Robbie Lowry, was a Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary...	1919	1999
1971	Basil McIvor Basil McIvor William Basil McIvor OBE PC was an Ulster Unionist politician, barrister and pioneer of integrated education.-Early life and education:...	1928	2004
1971	G. B. Newe	1907	1982
1971	John Taylor John Taylor, Baron Kilclooney John David Taylor, Baron Kilclooney, PC , is a former Ulster Unionist Party MP and a life peer. He was deputy leader of the UUP from 1995 to 2001, and a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly.-Career and family:...	1937	Living

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