This is a list of privy counsellors of the United Kingdom appointed between the accession of King Edward VIII in 1936 and the death of King George VI in 1952.

Edward VIII, 1936

  • Sir Akbar Hydari (1869–1942)
  • Sir George Rich (1863–1956)
  • Michael Joseph Savage (1872–1940)
  • John Colville (1894–1954)
  • The Duke of Beaufort (1900–1984)
  • The Duke of Sutherland (1888–1963)

George VI, 1936–1952

1937

  • The Lord Hutchison of Montrose (1873–1950)
  • Robert Menzies (1894–1978)
  • The Duke of Buccleuch (1894–1973)
  • Sir Harry Eve (1856–1940)
  • Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902–1942)
  • Leslie Burgin (1887–1945)
  • Ernest Lapointe (1876–1941)
  • The Viscount Galway (1882–1943)
  • Isaac Foot (1880–1960)

1938

  • Sir John Anderson (1882–1958)
  • Robert Hudson (1886–1957)
  • James Stratford (1869–1952)
  • Sir Donald Somervell (1889–1960)
  • The Viscount Finlay (1875–1945)
  • Sir Fairfax Luxmoore (1876–1944)
  • Rab Butler (1902–1982)
  • Herwald Ramsbotham (1887–1971)
  • The Marquess of Lothian (1882–1940)
  • The Lord Hankey (1877–1963)
  • Geoffrey Fisher (1887–1972)
  • Sir Ronald Campbell (1883–1953)
  • Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet (1873–1960)

1940

  • Sir Andrew Duncan (1884–1952)
  • Sir George Branson (1871–1951)
  • Sir John Reith (1889–1971)
  • Ernest Bevin (1881–1951)
  • Brendan Bracken (1901–1958)
  • Sir Walter Citrine (1887–1983)
  • Ronald Cross (1896–1968)
  • Hugh Dalton (1887–1962)
  • Sir Charles Edwards (1867–1954)
  • Sir Percy Harris, Bt (1876–1952)
  • Sir Robert Vansittart (1881–1957)
  • Peter Fraser (1884–1950)
  • The Duke of Hamilton (1903–1973)
  • Viscount Cranborne (1893–1972)
  • John Moore-Brabazon (1884–1964)
  • Oliver Lyttelton (1893–1972)
  • Arthur Blaikie Purvis (1890–1941)

1941

  • Douglas Clifton Brown (1879–1958)
  • Sir Walter Womersley (1878–1961)
  • James Reid (1890–1975)
  • Sir Miles Lampson (1880–1964)
  • Osbert Peake (1897–1966)
  • Geoffrey Lloyd (1902–1984)
  • Sir Archibald Clark Kerr (1882–1951)
  • Frank Forde (1890–1983)
  • Ellen Wilkinson (1891–1947)
  • Jack Lawson (1881–1965)
  • Alfred Barnes (1887–1974)
  • George Isaacs (1883–1979)
  • John Wilmot (1893–1964)
  • Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)
  • Manny Shinwell (1884–1986)
  • George Thomson (1893–1962)
  • William Wand (1885–1977)
  • The Lord Winster (1885–1961)
  • Jim Griffiths (1890–1975)
  • Sir Cuthbert Headlam, Bt (1876–1964)
  • Malcolm McCorquodale (1901–1971)
  • Lewis Silkin (1889–1972)
  • George Tomlinson (1890–1952)
  • Ted Williams (1890–1963)
  • The Lord Ammon (1873–1960)
  • The Duke of Abercorn (1869–1953)
  • Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894–1948)
  • Sir James Tucker (1888–1975)
  • Gideon Brand van Zyl (1873–1956)
  • Philip Noel-Baker (1889–1982)
  • Sir Alfred Townsend Bucknill (1880–1963)

1946

  • Jack Beasley (1895–1949)
  • Sir Travers Humphreys (1867–1956)
  • James Gardiner (1883–1962)
  • The Lord Catto (1879–1959)
  • David Kirkwood (1872–1955)
  • Sir John Singleton (1885–1957)
  • Sir Alfred Denning (1899–1999)

1949

  • The Lord Hailey (1872–1969)
  • Hilary Marquand (1901–1972)
  • Sir Oliver Franks (1905–1992)
  • Jack Holloway (1875–1967)

1951

  • Sir Owen Dixon (1886–1972)
  • The Earl of Drogheda (1884–1957)
  • The Hon. Kenneth Younger (1908–1976)
  • Douglas Jay (1907–1996)
  • Charles Williams (1886–1955)