Another controversy typical of the war between the Englishman and the Examiner centered on Robert ( later Viscount ) Molesworth, a Whig leader in Ireland and a member of the Irish Privy Council.

Upon complaints from the Lower House of Convocation to the House of Lords, he was removed from the Privy Council, his remark having been represented as a blasphemous affront to the clergy.

In the same way he coupled Molesworth and Wharton in a letter to Archbishop King, and he had earlier described him as `` the worst of them '' in some `` Observations '' on the Irish Privy Council submitted to Oxford.

In 1934, he was made a member of the Privy Council and served as a member of the League of Nations ( 1934 – 37 ), becoming the President of the League of Nations in 1937.

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* All government matters within the jurisdiction of the Privy Council were to be transacted there, and all council resolutions were to be signed by those who advised and consented to them.

Archbishops are, by convention, appointed to the Privy Council and may, therefore, also use the style of " The Right Honourable " for life ( unless they are later removed from the council ).

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* Jonathan Aitken and the hotel bill allegations, and subsequent conviction for perjury after his failed libel action against The Guardian, resulting in Aitken being only the third person to have to resign from the Privy Council in the 20th century.

The seminal authority in relation to what amounts to a proper purpose is the Privy Council decision of Howard Smith Ltd v Ampol Ltd AC 821.

Districts may apply to the British Crown for the grant of borough status upon advice of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

The business of making the changes was then entrusted to a small committee of bishops and the Privy Council and, apart from tidying up details, this committee introduced into Morning and Evening Prayer a prayer for the Royal Family ; added several thanksgivings to the Occasional Prayers at the end of the Litany ; altered the rubrics of Private Baptism limiting it to the minister of the parish, or some other lawful minister, but still allowing it in private houses ( the Puritans had wanted it only in the church ); and added to the Catechism the section on the sacraments.

Attlee was Lord Privy Seal ( 1940 – 42 ), Deputy Prime Minister ( 1942 – 45 ), Dominions Secretary ( 1942 – 43 ), and Lord President of the Council ( 1943 – 45 ).

Category: Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Category: Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom

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With the abolition of the monarchy, Privy Council and the House of Lords, it had unchecked executive, as well as legislative, power.

The Council of State, which replaced the Privy Council, took over many of the executive functions of the monarchy.

Rookes v Barnard has been much criticised and has not been followed in Canada or Australia or by the Privy Council.

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Lady Jane was proclaimed queen by the Privy Council, but her support quickly crumbled, and she was deposed after nine days.

The Privy Council ordered the arrest of both Howard and Arundel ; Oxford immediately met secretly with Arundel to convince him to support his allegations against Howard and Southwell, offering him money and a pardon from the Queen.

Only after being assured they would be placed under house arrest in the home of a Privy Council member did the pair gave themselves up.

Appeals from the Court of Appeal are sent to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, which essentially is the same body as the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords.

* No foreigner, even if naturalised ( unless they were born of English parents ), shall be allowed to be a Privy Councillor or a member of either House of Parliament, or hold " any office or place of trust, either civil or military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements or hereditaments from the Crown, to himself or to any other or others in trust for him.

The crowned puppet who possessed two casting votes in the Privy Council, of which he was the nominal president, and who was allowed to create peers once in his life, at his coronation, was rather a state decoration than a sovereignty.

Prompted by complaints from city officials, the Privy Council decreed in June 1600 that only two theatres would be allowed for stage plays: The Globe Theatre in Bankside, and the Fortune Theatre in Middlesex — specifically, Shoreditch.

In March 1544, as the war of Rough Wooing commenced in earnest, Henry VIII sent his Richmond Herald, Gilbert Dethick, to the Privy Council of Scotland at Stirling Castle to demand the return to England of a number of these high-ranking prisoners who had been allowed home on licence.

Statue of Ernest Bevin in Southwark, South LondonHis health failing, Bevin reluctantly allowed himself to be moved to become Lord Privy Seal in March 1951.

The Act allowed the King to establish a committee of the Privy Council, which was to include at least two members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Thereafter, a successor of a person thus deprived of a peerage would be allowed to petition the Crown for revival of the deprived title ; the petition would be referred to a committee of the Privy Council, which would recommend whether the petitioner be reinstated or not.

According to the Imperial ambassador Jehan de Scheyfye, Anne Seymour had made daily visits to the house of the de facto new ruler, John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, who soon allowed Somerset to rejoin the Privy Council.

Descriptive titles " Chartered Insurer " and " Chartered Insurance Practitioner " allowed by the Privy Council.

Until at least the sixteenth century, individual Officers of State had separate property, powers and responsibilities granted with their separate offices by Royal Command, and the Crown and the Privy Council constituted the only co-ordinating authorities.

The Governor-General of Barbados also chairs his own Privy Council, a distinct and separate Privy Council of the British Privy Council.

The Lords Commissioners of Trade and Foreign Plantations, appointed in 1696 and commonly known as the Lords of Trade, did not constitute a committee of the Privy Council, but were, in fact, members of a separate body.

There was also a separate Privy Seal of Scotland, which existed from at least the reign of Alexander III.

When Canada became a Dominion in 1867, however, a separate Canadian Privy Council was established to advise the Governor General on the exercise of the Crown prerogative, though the viceroy remained an agent of the British government at Whitehall.

In 1989 the Government House Leader became a separate position and the President of the Privy Council became a largely honorary title ( not unlike that of Deputy Prime Minister of Canada ) given to a senior minister in addition to other portfolios.

Jackson served two separate periods as Financial Secretary to the Treasury ( 1885 – 1886 and 1886 – 1891 ), being created a Privy Counsellor on 30 June 1890.

With Lady Marlborough's advancements as Groom of the Stole, Mistress of the Robes, and Keeper of the Privy Purse, the Marlboroughs, now at the height of their powers with the Queen, enjoyed a joint annual income of over £ 60, 000, and unrivalled influence at court.

In December 1803 he was arrested by order of the Privy Council and promptly released on bail set at £ 40, 000 ( Picton was able to give surety for half of this ; two West Indies plantation owners covered the remainder ).

The game was played and gambled over by King Henry VIII of England, who prohibited commoners from playing ; evidently he did not always win, as the record of royal expenses for 1532 show a payment from the Privy Purse of GB £ 9, ' Paied to my lord Wylliam for that he wanne of the kinges grace at shovillaborde ' ( contemporary spelling: ' Paid to Lord William, for he won, by the king's grace, at shovelboard ').

At the end of the war, on 28 March 1550, the Earl of Shrewsbury was asked by the Privy Council to organise his release by the exchange of French hostages to the value of £ 200.

This same year under the provisions of the Mercantile Marine Fund the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade offered a government subsidy, at first amounting to £ 2000 /~ per year on the basis of a number of conditions.

' The aim is to raise £ 1 million to provide bursaries for Choristers to help them with the cost of instrumental or vocal tuition ; to encourage schools near Hampton Court Palace to promote choral music and organ music with the help of the Chapel Royal ; and to make the musical establishment of the Chapel Royal financially independent of the Privy Purse Charitable Trust and of the income from collections at services in the Chapel Royal.

At one point, Lord Carteret and the Irish Privy Council offered a significant reward of £ 300 for information that would verify the identity of the pamphlet's author, but Swift was neither arrested nor charged for the works.

In his criticism of the Privy Council's report, the Drapier claims that the report is part of Wood's propaganda and lies, because Wood released three proposals concurrent with the report: lowering the patent production quota from £ 100, 800 to £ 40, 000 worth ; that no one is obliged to accept more than five pence halfpenny per transaction ; and to sell the coin at 2s 1 d a pound or his raw copper at 1s 8d a pound.

In 1914, after a successful appeal to the United Kingdom's Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a sum of £ 215, 000 was awarded to the state of South Australia and the legal dispute was ended.